OK, those who are a lot farther out than I am:

I am still unbelievably tired. I am 11 days out from surgery, but today I got up at 7, napped from 8-11, napped again from 2:15 until 4, and could still just go and curl up and sleep more. Is this normal? If so, how long will it last? I even went for a 1.5 mile 30 minute walk this evening and was yawning on the way home! I so hope this will pass soon.

Thanks - I will definitely check it out - easy sounds good and since I don't really enjoy eating, I don't really care what I eat - if I don't have to do a lot of planning, that would be great for me -- and probably Bearded too!

How is everyone getting their PROTIEN on Full Liquids? I do chicken/beef broth, but that's only 2grams.

I have a protein shake for breakfast, lunch and after dinner and get it all in fine. I'm getting a little sick of shakes, but I don't like a lot of the alternatives. I have soup for dinner. The first day of full liquids I tried clam chowder with the clams and potatoes strained out. It was yummy, but I ate maybe 1/3 of the bowl and was FULL because of the milk in the soup, very filling. Last night I had strained Minestrone soup, whoop, how exciting is that?! Tired of liquids but don't think I could stomach anything mushy just yet anyway. I don't like that overly full feeling I had with the chowder, and it happened after 5 min. and I was done.

Oh..I see, I'm still on my 1st week of CLEAR LIQUIDS. No cream soups allowed for me. I ordered WONTON Soup, then strained all the wontons, etc. out. It was delicious! I'm making homemade chicken broth right now...leeks, carrots, celery, etc. then strain that. I hate canned stuff .. too much sodium :-( I found some liquid protein, clear, it tastes horrendous, but at least I can do that for the next 3-4 days. How did you figure "one week"? From the actual day of surgery or after you got out of hospital and could do icechips?

You asked how everyone was doing on FULL LIQUIDS so I responded. Clear liquids are not full liquids, so I can have cream soups at this point which started on day 11 post-op.

Day 1 is the day after surgery or the first day you can sip water.