Well I did it. After ten years of dreaming about it and 7 months of preparing for it, my surgery was completed Monday, Nov 14th at about 10:30am. My surgery took 3 hours instead of the standard 2 because he had to cut out alot of scar tissue from my gallbladder surgery. When I woke up, I was wrecked!! SO MUCH PAIN!! It felt as bad as when my gallbladder ruptured, but Morphine quickly became my BFF. The first and second day was the worst, day 3 I felt pretty good so I did alot of walking. I did start walking on dayone though. I started running a fever on Wednesday on and off, so I was ordered a barium swallow to make sure there was no leakage and a chest x-ray to rule out pneumonia. Everything came back good and I was relieved!! All my meals were NASTY broth, a pretty good protein shake and jello. I never drank any of the broth (it had to be some kind of mix, raunchy is a understatement. The protein shake and jello took me all day to drink.I still dont feel hungry. Dr Weiss said I will have to make myself eat because I will probably not be hungry at all. I was discharged on Thursday night at about 830.
The staff of the ICU unit at Georgetown Hospital was fan-freakin-tastic!!! I could not have felt more at ease because of the care that they gave. Not to minimize the support and help from Mom and Jay. I was so glad they were there. I know how boring sitting in a hospital room is. And then I see the support coming from my friends in text and FB posts. Super cool!
Well if you are wondering if I have lost any weight yet, the answer, apparently, is yes.:) They did not want us to weigh while we were there because They pumped us soooooo full of fluid but I couldn't resist. I have lost 7.5 more pounds from mon to thurs, add that to my 14 day pre surgery diet and I have lost so far 15.5 pounds. Oh and by the way, I would like to apologize to everyone who saw my "before surgery" pics. I wanted to kill them for posting those!!!!!!! Paybacks are hell!!
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