I was sleeved on Monday and the first night I was miserable but soon after I had a breakthrough and I feel fine. The gas and pain is not bad at all. I have pics I will post soon. I even have a pic of my old stomach and a video of my new stomach. I am over the moon. Dr Garcia said that I had a lot of scar tissue from my other surgeries but I did fine. I have enough paperwork to keep me reading for a while. Everyone was nice and even though there was a language barrier they spoke enough English to communicate properly. I only have two complaints: the water in the hospital was cold which was fixed immediately and the beds in the hotel are hard. I just asked for extra pillows. I am a picky patient so I expect all to go well. Polite, nice, caring, and professional. Clean clean clean! Ask me questions I will answer them. I'm going to have broth now but will answer when I wake up from my nap.

Just curious....did you ask for the video of your new stomach? Is this a video of the entire surgery? Just curious as I never got a video. I got pictures of my new stomach when I had xrays and drank that awful tasting white liquid......just curious.

Congratulations on your new sleeve !!! Your recovery seems to be coming along just fine.

Congrats, you are doing great! @Iowa, I asked Dr. Garcia for my surgery video when I was there in Sept. My fiance also managed to get a pic of the removed stomach. Ack! They probably have it on disc and might be able to just burn u a copy.

I have a video of the leak test and my hubby took a pic of my old removed stomach.

I was so hungry coming home from TJ and craving food, but now that I know that it's head hunger I can deal with it better. I'm full on pills right now! lol

Glad to hear things went well, now on to becoming a big ol' loser, lol!

So happy that you are on your way home and feeling great. Also glad that you had a great experience with Dr Garcia, the staff and Hospital Mi.

I am glad to hear everything went so well! yes, I am not looking forward to the Tijuana street vendors, I hear they are very pushy. But I am getting so antsy to go!