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Okay....dumb question alert....skip this one if you can't tolerate idiotic questions. Hey...I had surgery on Tuesday so my thinking is fogged by powerful drugs and pain.... How do you count days since your surgery? Today I told my hubby that I felt like I was doing pretty good considering this was Day 4 for me. He pointed out that it is actually day 5. I told him I was counting post op days. Surgery was on Tuesday so Wed is Day 1, Thur is Day 2, Fri is Day 3 and today is Day 4. Duh....but it now occurs to me that other people may do this different. NOT that it matters a bit but if one is navel gazing the amount of trivial nonsense one can be obsessed with is truly astounding! I know it will matter less to me as time goes on and I start calculating the time from surgery in weeks and months but now every darned hour seems monumentally important. :blah: Does anyone start day 1 with the surgery day like my husband would?

Glad to hear you got through surgery Starygirl!! They gave me Propel vitamin water and chicken broth to drink in the hospital after I passed my leak test on Wednesday. (Surg on Tues) I was discharged that afternoon and if my fuzzy narcotic influenced memory is correct...I drank only water at home. Thursday I drank plain water, had a popsicle and drank some of the unjury chicken soup. Friday I had an Atkins chocolate Royale shake, a few ounces of creamed red pepper soup which I re-blended in the VitaMix to get any bits out, diet green tea and of course...more water! Today I am in the process of slowing having another Atkins shake and I drank more vitamin water when I took a walk this morning. I don't love the vitamin water but hubby says I need the electrolytes so I my goals is to drink 12 oz of it over the whole day. Barley tea doesn't seem like much to have at your stage of the game but I am also assuming that you still have an IV so you are not going to get dehydrated. Keep us posted! :thumbs_up: And YEA to the other glitter peeing (that makes me smile every time I see it) Starry here for her fabulous success!! Way to go! :cheer2:

I was sleeved on Tues & my doc said not to think about anything except staying hydrated for several days. Add in the broth and shakes as you tolerate them. You won't die from a protein deficiency for a few days! Slow and steady wins the race!

I will consider it to be the NSV ever when my jeans hit the ground!!! :Banane02:

What?!!! Something better than Greek yogurt with Torani syrup? I can't wait to try it.... Thanks for posting the tip!

Thanks guys! I am feeling even better today and I am so optimistic that this surgery is going to be just what I needed!

Hi Surgery TWIN!! I had mine on the 12th too! Post when you can and let us know how you are. I am in awe of these folks who post from the hospital or even the day of the surgery. My brain was NOT thinking clearly enough for that. It has really taken me until Day 3 to want to rejoin the world!

OGM...I cannot believe you have made such progress in just 7 months! It is amazing to see how your face has changed and you look so beautiful. :rose: Thanks so much for posting these pictures. It is hard to understand how important visuals like this were to me when I would wake up and have the 2 AM doubts and question my sanity. I'd log onto VSG Talk and find some lovely pictures like this, calm down and go back to bed reassured that I am on the right path! Congratulations on your success and I honestly can't imagine how you are going to look even better in the future because you look so great now!

Call your doc & see what they recommend. I am 3 days out & taking liquid Tylenol & liquid hydrocodone. Dropping the hydrocodone this AM & using just liquid Tylenol after this. A cold is miserable especially after new surgery so I would check with your doctor. Feel better soon!

Repost this with a header relating to needing someone from Plano area and you might find someone more quickly! I am too far away in Austin or I would do it. Good luck!

Hubby bought Biotene moisturing mouth spray for me to take to the hospital and it was amazing. You have a long time after surgery when you can't drink and this kept my mouth tolerable. I alternated between rinsing with water and using the spray and it helped a lot.

Well...I had my sleeve on Tuesday (April 12) and I feel like I have had my guts rearranged with a rake! Ok...probably not that bad but I haven't been out of surgery much over 48 hours so I think discomfort is to be expected. I had a hysterectomy and it was a lot worse. I am taking pain meds but not as much as the doc said that I could and I suspect I will stop them by tomorrow. I think I would be in great shape right now except that I had a large hiatal hernia repair done at the same time and that is what hurts. The doc said a big chunk of my stomach had gone through my diaphragm wall and was protuding into my thoracic cavity. One of my incision sites is very high...right at the bra line and that was so they could maneuver the stomach back down in the abdominal cavity. (I guess) and that area is what hurts. The surgeon told me he expected that to be painful because he had to do a lot of work there. I am not hungry at all and today drank some chicken broth for lunch and am sipping Water all day. No nausea at all since the surgery so knock on wood...maybe I will avoid that I really, really like my surgeon a lot. His name is Mark Sherrod with SW Bariatrics and Capital Area Surgeons. I worked with him when I was working at a local hospital and he was calm and competent...a no drama kind of guy. He had very few complications, he performed a lot of emergency and scheduled surgery's...appendectomies, gall bladders, bowel obstructions, etc. That breadth of experience was important to me because I wanted a surgeon who could take me back to the O.R. if I developed a complication and know what to do. I was very touched my an incident in the OR. He told me was going to set up some soothing music (then put on Willy Nelson's Whiskey River if my memory is accurate!) but then he pulled up a stool beside me and took my hand and held it. It was very calming and the last thing I remember thinking in the OR was what an unusual thing it was for a doctor to offer comfort! I expect nurses to do that but not doctors! That is not a slam on doctors...they just generally are too preoccupied with the procedure to take the time. I mentioned the incident to my nurse in my hospital room later and she said, "oh you picked a good surgeon." Trust me...nurses who work in the surgical and post surgical areas KNOW who the good surgeons are and who aren't!! All and all I would do it again in a heartbeat even though you have an uncomfortable couple of days. I look forward to getting back to normal and seeing what eating is going to be like with this little stomach! Oh by the way....my husband now qualifies for saint hood! The hospital room has a fold out bed so the patient can have someone spend the night and he did. He was wonderful and helping me to get up to go to the bathroom, rubbing my shoulders, walking me around the halls. I got quite cranky when I was hurting and waiting on pain meds and he took it all in stride! I got a keeper here!!!

57 here so you are in good company! Good luck with you surgery next week!

20 lbs is great! I will be thrilled if I am down 20 lbs a month from tomorrow (surgery date!) congratulations on your success.

Tracey, I am not a vegetarian but I have seen several posts from folks who are so I know they are out there! My response should put your message back into the "new content" list and hopefully you will get some responses. I am sure VSG can be done with a vegetarian diet!

Hi Looou...I just sent you a FB friend request and I totally understand about keeping your surgery private. I am the same way. Only people on FB who know that I am having the surgery tomorrow are my daughters and hubby. Thanks and good luck on Friday!

Congratulations on your amazing success and thanks for posting! I am having surgery tomorrow and this is JUST what I needed to read to help me to get over the nervous butterflies!

What is boost? Protein drink

Congratulations!! You must be excited to have the surgery behind you! Good luck with your weight loss journey!

I made the chocolate Protein mini muffins this afternoon & they are quite good. Hubby loved them even more than me. I'd like to make them ultra high calorie by adding a rich fudge frosting but I guess that would defeat the purpose! I put the recipe into myfitnesspal to calculate nutrition & per muffin: 35 calories; 2 gms carbs; 3 gms protein. The only change I made was to use non-fat milk because that was all I had. Love her blog!

Just asking...what if she threw them in a VitaMix? I have one and when I puree fresh berries I don't seem to have anything resembling seeds. Doesn't mean they aren't there in a size sufficient to cause problems though! Glad you asked the question Sarah because I think I would have gone ahead and pureed them without thinking but now I will ask my doc when I can add them.

Sorry to hear about the family funerals and especially two in one weekend...what a hard weekend to get through. I feel your pain about the southern food. In my family you didn't eat meat (and a lot of vegetables) unless it was dipped in egg and flour and fried and served with a cream sauce. Not to mention the biscuits, mashed potatoes, butter and everything else that went with it. My husband thinks I am joking (but I am not!) but I didn't know you could grill meat until I was dating and a guy ordered his steak grilled. It was a marvel to me. (Yep....just a little hick girl here)! Fortunately my exposure to those relatives and eating situations is limited now and after next week I will also have the sleeve on my side to help. Thanks for sharing your experience...gave me flashbacks to my family!

What is a big happy family without a few spats here and there? We all have our bad days and I was happy to see how many people jumped in to comfort you instead of the flaming that would have occurred on a lot of forums! :grouphug:

Guitrman....I wondered about you this morning but didn't see any posts from you yet so I am glad you are back home and doing well! Congrats on getting through the surgery. Looking forward to hearing how the weight loss goes! I am right behind you with surgery on Tuesday! I suspect I will need all of the Ativan they will give me to stay calm!:bolt:

I am sure we will save money on food if you include eating out as hubby & I have a serious eating out addiction. As a couple we eat out 5-6 meals a week and at work I often go out with co-workers for lunch. Hubby & I will still eat out more than we should but like "can't weight", I will be a cheap date! That alone will save big bucks. Plus....I have been spending a lot of time on Eggface's blog & tried a couple of her recipes this week and hope to start making foods to take to work. Since the kiddos left the nest I haven't cooked much but maybe this will change.