adelie21

I had my surgery on Monday. The gas pain in the shoulders was the absolute worse. However my blood work showed that I have some internal bleeding. I had to have a blood transfusion today. They did a CT scan as well today to see what is going on and they confirmed I have blood pooled behind some organs. They also saw a bleed on the CT scan but it was from on the incisions for the surgical tools. HOpefully if my hemoglobin levels out and I don’t lose anymore I can go home tomorrow.

I had all my preop appointments yesterday with my surgeon and anesthesia so it looks like everything is cleared. I had to do chest X-ray and extra blood work today. The only thing that concerned me is the anesthesiologist did an EKG yesterday and mentioned that it looked like I might have had a heart attack. She wants me to talk to my PCP about it, she said it could be a lead not in the right place, something, or nothing. I feel like here I am, 43, and already potentially had a heart attack. That is scary to me and way to scare a person before they undergo major surgery. My perception of how important this surgery is has changed a bit. Now it is important as ever to have this surgery done and to be successful with its results. I am doing my preop diet and it is not so bad, but I am ready to chew something. So my surgery team said I could chew sugar free gum. So I am going to try that. So now it just 9 days until surgery. I am taking my son on a road trip Saturday and Sunday and I am not sure how I am going to cope with no snack food on the trip. I normally munch on popcorn, or something while I drive. I guess I will just have to chew some gum. Chew chew chew. lol

My surgery date is the 17th of July, in Texas at the University Hospital in San Antonio.

Thanks for the encouragement. I have been reading a lot on here. Yes I have to do a 2 week liquid diet. So it wills tart July 3rd. That has me worried the most since I have a physically demanding job. I am not sure how I am going to make it through the day with so few calories. I am going to talk to my nutritionist about it next time we meet.

I am scheduled July 17th

Hi All. Found out yesterday that my surgery date is going to be July 17th. I am super excited, however I find myself feeling totally unprepared and almost panicked that I won't have everything ready. I think the liquid diet scares me the most because I have a physically demanding job and living on liquids is going to be hard to have enough energy to get through it.