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Yay! Surgery is over. I am stil in the hospital and will go home it a little while. I am one day post op. Surgery took an hour and a half and then I went to recovery for an hour and then came up to my room. I got up and walked around the floor a couple of times yesterday and walked. I had an IV, Catheter, Oxygen and a O2 monitor. THat was cumbersome but ok. I slept most of the time. (morphine)

This morning I went down to radiology for a swallow study to see if there were any leaks in my band. There wasnt so I got to start sipping on Water. Then I got Jello and broth and for lunch I got a little cup of carnation instant Breakfast and a littl cup of creamy Soup (very diluted) It has all gone down well. I am sipping on my water. I met with the Bariatric surgery coordinator and the dietician came in to talk to me. I will go home soon.

I have five port holes. One is more painful than the rest. It isnt the port one but just more tender.

Wish me well. I will check in again soon..

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you make it sound all so fine ..... i truly hope your are feeling good - and well done - the worst bit is over ..... mine's 27th october. jude x

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Thank you so much for posting your experience. I start my diet tomarrow and am getting nervous. I'll have 4 days to recover before going back to work kinda worried about it. What worrys the most from your post is the catheter. I have had major surgery twice and never had a catheter. Scary stuff:) I hope you have a very speedy recovery. Feel better soon:)

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Hi! I'm getting banded tomorrow and reading that you're doing well made me calm down a bit. Congrats on getting banded! Much luck and success to you! I hope you have a speedy recovery! :thumbdown:

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Congrats Mishay! Hope you have a speedy recovery!! Please keep us posted on how you are doing!!

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I was banded on Sept 16th and feeling great and down 20lbs as of today. Mishay you are doing awesome. I suggest you keep walking around to get that gas moving. That was the worst for me. I only had one small incision about 1 1/2 inch and had no issues with that. Day 5 was the hardest for me as I got really week that day and could not go back to work as planned but was better the next. Stick in there and good luck:thumbup:

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Mishay,

I had my surgery yesterday as well, but didnt have to spend the night. I slept most of the day due to the pain meds, which was totally find by me.

I have almost no gas, so no gas pain. I am most happy about this. I am also able to consume the same amount of liquid that I did before surgery. I am trying to stretch out the hydrocodone by using tylenol in between doses with some success.

Some people say day 3 is the worst, but I dont expect much more than I have had today.

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Thank you so much for posting your experience. I start my diet tomarrow and am getting nervous. I'll have 4 days to recover before going back to work kinda worried about it. What worrys the most from your post is the catheter. I have had major surgery twice and never had a catheter. Scary stuff:) I hope you have a very speedy recovery. Feel better soon:)

Tannie-They put the catheter in right when you are coming out of anesthesia, I didn't even remember it. I was sure glad when it came out, didn't hurt a bit to come out but just cumbersome and annoying lugging it around with you!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

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        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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