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A weight loss surgery blog by Minnah on BariatricPal. 2 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Read more about The importance of walking...

The importance of walking...

I was feeling better last night and moving around some. I was able to get more fluids down and it was a generally good day. Then, I started feeling a stitch on my left side, around the rib cage. I tried to walk it out, but the pain was too much and I needed to sit down. Then it seemed the sitting was making it worse, so I went to go lay down. By then, I thought my side was going to burst and I was crying, which didn’t help because now breathing even hurt. My husband was shocked by the quick tu

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• Minnah
• January 27, 200917 yr

Read more about Not quite Superwomen, just me.

Not quite Superwomen, just me.

I was banded on 1/23/09 and I read about the recovery time being 3 to 4 days, so I expected to be back at work Tuesday. How naïve I was. Ha! I woke up in recovery feeling I had been stabbed 5 times and then suckered punched. I had a flitting thought of "Oh God, I change my mind!" I woke up at 5:30 p.m., but didn't get home until 9:30 p.m. The issue was I was very nauseous and couldn’t muster the energy to walk over to the next room to get my x-ray. I finally just sucked it up and did it. I j

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• Minnah
• January 26, 200917 yr