salmonsa

Good luck! broth is your friend. Take it easy and heal.

Congrats on your surgery tomorrow. Wow u have first hand knowledge of what the surgery really entails. Make sure u rest in weeks to come. I was sort of week for some time. I now take a nap everyda, that I did not do prior to surgery. Just be patient with the process. It will reek time to go through the eating phases. Don't rush thin. The food that you cannot have in the first 3 eating phases will be there for u ..like chicken, beef, veggies, fruits.

Good luck!!

Just sip, sip, sip, and walk, walk, walk. Keep ahead of pain by taking your pain meds on schedule. Some sleep in a recliner the first few nights, but I was fine sleeping in bed. Keep hydrated. Try chicken broth simmered with dried thyme and rosemary and a smidge of Better than Bouillon. It is so warm and savory it will soothe your tummy.

Ha! It really is. I had a night nurse get lippy with me about it..she scolded me for sipping my liquid percocet to slow. So I turned the tables on her. Asked her to coach me threw dirnking the little cup of red liquid. She did. I thanked her and then I finslly had an idea of exactly what sort of sips they meant. Otherwise I would not have known.

The first few days they say sip sip sip. What a joke! It's more like barely dipped your upper lip into the Water = sip. Gets better (for most of us) pretty quickly though

Mine was swollen shut post op. I coildnt keep a single thing down until they did my leak test and saw it was swollen closed in 2 places.
I got a couole shots in the tummy, extra meds and then just started sipping.
Now, at 11 weeks post I have somw difficulties eating. Soft things like cottage cheese or yogurts go down ok. meats do not. I can only eat 1 oz of any given meat.
But im happy with it. Its not a big deal. Im told this will change.