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3 weeks post op and one incision site hurt really bad and another one started leaking. Hopefully it's not an infection.

Best on the go breakfast. if you get down the whole 1 ounce packet. That's 6g of protein.

Any liquid I buy has to be turned into a slushie then I can "drink" it. I guess I had dumping yesterday but that was totally my fault but wasn't the sugar in the milk it was the fact that it was regular milk. Funny enough with all my issues my body doesn't mind sugar at all. It's weird. So half frozen Capri sun has been my salvation.

Well @@amylynns what I do as a night shift OR Nurse is mostly trauma (i.e. running), and setting up for the first surgeries in the morning which could require some lifting and at this point, I'm not ready.

@@Beni my friend gave me this today and it motivates me no matter how bad I feel.

I'm sorry I haven't been around much. @@Bronxmerci I'm there I know how it feels. Once we get through this month or two it'll get better. It may not seem like there is an end in sight but there is. You have to live each day knowing that you are stronger than the day before. This whole process has to be treated like a learning curve. God hears you and would never put more on you than you can bear. Stated truths: You are loved, You will get better, You will survive this, Your future and your son's future is blinding because it is so bright, You will be stronger than you ever thought possible, You will be the best you that you can be because you will appreciate every moment that life gives you. I am excited to see you're growth after this trial by fire. I'm going through somethings also and there's no way I can get back to work. I'll probably be off another 5 weeks. New problems all the time. But what is true for me is true for you as well. This time will pass. Keep your eyes forward to your goals. Love you girl.

My new best friend is smoothies. Apparently the colder a fluid is the better I tolerate it.

was it sucralfate ?Don't try to go so long between your pain meds. You just had open major surgery. You want to be on schedule with pain meds so it doesn't get bad bad.

Thank you for the support. I was sad last night because I missed my twenty year high school reunion. But I felt better when I gave my ticket to someone else and saw that they had a great time. I'll just plan one myself in a few years.

I've decided to stop bemoaning my fate. It's not in my normal personality. I'm a fighter. So I am making myself drink and deal with with the two minute of unpleasant cramping. I'm taking my pain meds for my lower left connection. And I need to move more. I've been in the fetal position crying for weeks now. It's time to take control. And Push through. Starting with this one egg omelet with salmon and mozzarella. They put me on soft foods I need to move forward. There's no magic time machine to tell me not to do it. Yea I have buyers remorse hopefully it'll go away as I get better. Right now it's going to be mind over body.

Is anyone else tired of the bad taste in your mouth that is always present no mater how many times you brush? Someone said this could last the whole first 1-4 months.

@@Bronxmerci do you feel pressure on your chest when you drink. And TMI I've had my period for 10 days now.

maybe I should go back too. I'm not getting any better Bronxy. I'm trying to drink. I think pills got stuck yesterday. I just cry. And for the first time, I'm nauseous more times than not. I can eat. I have bm. But I want to drink more fluid. I've tried absolutely everythjng. I can get more than 1-3 cups a day. I've cried watching my baby girl drink a bottle of water. When my aunt cooks next door, the smell sickens me. To say nothing of the pain. So I am right there with you girl. I'm praying for us both. My mom doesn't understand. She said I need to I back to that doctor and make him reverse what they did. She doesn't understand permanent !!! ????????

you're good I barely get in 2-3 cups of Fluid. I'm three weeks out.

Trying to get liquids down is a full time job. I can get maybe 8-16 ounces a day. Haven't had my vits for a few days. I have to get back on track. I have no idea how I will go back to work in 10 days.

awww kim I'm wishing you a speedy recovery.

thats crazy but I thinks it's to protect you kids from the ones in the hospital.

One of my best friends who had gastric bypass surgery years ago stated that she had no complications and no pain after her surgery

internal staples you keep. Some people had external Staples to close their incisions. Some people have a derma bond to close their incisions. Some people had sutures and Steri-Strips to close their incisions.

yes it seemed they started that with this enterovirus outbreak.

Old habits die hard. In my effort to take in as much fluid as I can, so that I don't go through dehydration again. I went into the gas station and bought a 44 ounce Slurpie. I can't drink that much. I don't even know why I bought it. I could I had a baby size and I'd've been fine. fortunately my body doesn't care how much sugar I take in yet. But there's no way I'm getting down this whole Slurpie. They put me on phase three diet yesterday, soft foods and gave me more pain meds a whole other bottle. If I didn't have this pain in my lower left abdomen and lost my ability to drink copious amounts of water, I wouldn't even be able to tell if I had surgery.

what I did with my Boston market spinach was run it through my babyfood maker then ate it. It kinda strained off the fibrous stems.

yep that was all part of my consent.

tried a Neti pot? Or maybe a nasonex?

I talked to the doctor today and they said the lower left abdominal pain is the pain they expect most patients to have. It's where they reconnected the duodenum to the the rest of the small intestine. She said in my cat scan that there was a little air there. Then she prescribed more hycet for pain.