I'm Sleeved Yeah!

Hi everyone. I had my sleeve surgery on Monday Jan 16th and stayed in the Hospital on Monday, Tuesday and all day Wednesday.

Everything went good with the surgery and I even got some nice pictures of my new sleeve. The hardest part of this for me was the drain tube and the pain from that drain was so excruciating for me. The pain was on one side and went up to my shoulder. OUCH did that hurt. But once they took that drain out I felt so much better, what relief. I was nauseous on the second day and ended up throwing up once, I think part of that was from having to drink that stuff for the leak test. They took good care of me though with some very helpful meds for the pain and nausea.

On day 3 after my sleeve surgery I was feeling great, a little tender in the tummy area but I feel so good, especially since they took out that drain. Wow, all these months waiting for this day to come and it’s done. When I started coming out from surgery I remember the first thing I said was is this for real or a dream and they are like "this is real" :smile1: Now I’m officially on the loser bench.

By day 4 I was feeling good. I had some sugar free pudding in the morning to help me take my prilosec that the Dr prescribed me. I have to open the capsule up and put it in the pudding and take it that way. It took me a little while but I was able to eat one of those little pre packaged cups of pudding and I feel fine. I got down 16oz of water already; the goal is to drink 64 oz a day.

I gained about 15lbs in the hospital from IV fluids and I’m finally seeing some of that come off plus more, I have lost 30lbs so far since I left the hospital.

I’ve been making myself get up every half hour and walk around the house a few times.

I'm hanging in here and doing very well since my sleeve surgery and keeping track of me and having hubby take a picture of me every week.

Life is good! :smile1:

Teresa