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I am 6 days post op, I know it's frustrating watching TV trying to recover and get fluids and Protein .... Then you have commercials 80% are fast food commercial or food related..so I am focused on my liquid diet for the next week and look forward to mushy food.. Just remember baby steps!! we chose this life change! so don't complain like someone forced you to get surgery... Think about the positive and that we will have to struggle a bit..but then the rewards will be worth the wait and effort.. My suggestion is to spend your free time reading and research healthy recipes... Exercise hang at your park or walk the dog... Around your block...Look for moral support....we are here to get passed those hurdles. If your in pain call your surgeon get liquid meds for pain and chewable vitamins....RELAX!!!! breath

I was sleeved on the 2nd as well. Monday was horrible. Not due to pain or nausea but because all I wanted was to sleep and I was put in a semi private room with someone who LOVED the attention she was getting from all of this. Seriously nurses were constantly in the room for one thing or another. Finally I had a mini meltdown because I could NOT get any rest because of her. The nurses felt sorry for me and found a private room to move me to. From that point on until discharge the next afternoon I was pretty much out of it and slept, I think I walked a total of 4 times. Slept all day Wednesday, felt better Thursday and COMPLETELY overdid it-made hubby a nice dinner, went up and down the stairs several times doing laundry and picking up the house. Paid the price yesterday, felt like crap but was still stubborn and cooked hubby a nice dinner. Once it was done crashed on the couch forgetting my cell phone was on silent......woke up to sheriffs deputies, an ambulance and two paramedics at my door because hubby had been trying to reach me and couldn't.........I was dehydrated so it was a good thing. Now per paramedic and hubby's orders I am banned to the couch for the remainder of my time off work. Learn from my example guys.....take it slow.