I arrived at the hospital at 6:30 this morning and was in surgery at 7:30. I woke up in recovery at 9:00 and was heading for the exit by 10:30. I came home and slept most of the day. The pain is minimal. The worst of it is in the area of the incision I assume was where the organ exited my body. I'm pretty swollen and had to take off my rings that are usually pretty loose. I'm beginning to get a little bit of that dreaded shoulder pain that we all know so well but other than that, I feel remarkably well. When I got up this morning I weighed 173 lbs. Tonight the scale said 180. Darn IV fluid weighs a ton!

Tell them to get over it! You could be gone, sitting at home, and letting them compensate for all the work you do.

Shues, thanks for the heads up. I will definitely be keeping a closer eye on the scale. If I see the numbers going up I will certainly do all I can to nip that in the bud! Work went fine yesterday. When I got there, I really wasn't sure I was going to make it all day but by early afternoon I was feeling almost back to normal.

Yeah going back to work was tough for me since my job was a lot of getting up and down I was exhausted but after a week I was back to normal!

So, I went for my follow up today. I'm still swollen and 4 or 5 pounds higher than I was. Still can't get my rings on. Bruising is going down and incisions are healing but I have quite a bit of tenderness internally. He said everything is normal. He also said that my gall bladder was really bad...full of stones and probably should have been removed years ago. I asked if he looked at it when he put my band in (4 years ago). He said it was normal then and that rapid weight loss can cause it.

Glad to hear you're doing alright, you're going to be sore for a while, hang in there!