I couldn't decide where to put this one so I figured that most of it's gonna come after surgery so I put it in post op. Feel free to move it if necessary.

I was reading another thread and someone said these words and it made me think about what I have learned reading this board and was amazed at the responses I saw stating that they were not told such and such before hand. What are some things that you have learned after the fact?? The things you didn't find out until you were elbow deep into this journey...

Let's hear them, the good, the bad, and the ugly. I know that I am not the only one to wander this and I know that others looking are curious as well. The only way to learn is to talk to others that have been through the experience. Thanks, Dave.

They also mow the lawn and help make the house note.

That tears it. I'm going to Whole Paycheck and getting the chis seeds. I HATE mowing the damned lawn.

Laying in bed for a week makes your butt hurt!

My lawn mower guy is $35 a week. My Protein costs more than that. We must have priorities!

But getting the lawnmower guy officially relieved DH of the sole remaining job that was actually HIS, so what did I really accomplish?

That tears it. I'm going to Whole Paycheck and getting the chis seeds. I HATE mowing the damned lawn.

Tang?

I started using ....what's it called....the powder in the orange bottle.

Tang?

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Metamucil

Miralax is fantastic, I take a dose a day in the evening and have normal poops the next day. It may take a couple of days to kick in but take it every day.

Metamucil

Citrucel is like that too. Tastes like tang. Imagine my surprise when it solidified. Weird practical joke would be to replace someones Orange Crystal Light with some of that. WTH???!!

Laying in bed for a week makes your butt hurt!

Well yeah! Don't they let you walk at all? Too bad you cannot get into a pool yet. Maybe a few weeks from now? Zero gravity would feel nice :-)

I wish I was educated on the emotional stress you go through after surgery. I was very weepy and anxious partly becuase of the loss of my old eating habits, not being able to pick my children up , feeling selfish and a bit worthless becuase I couldn't take care of the family as I needed. It was alot to adjust to at first and 3 weeks later I've finally come to terms with my new life and embracing each and every pound with joy . As I said earlier I just wish I would have been prepared for the emotions!!!

I wish I was educated on the emotional stress you go through after surgery. I was very weepy and anxious partly becuase of the loss of my old eating habits' date=' not being able to pick my children up , feeling selfish and a bit worthless becuase I couldn't take care of the family as I needed. It was alot to adjust to at first and 3 weeks later I've finally come to terms with my new life and embracing each and every pound with joy . As I said earlier I just wish I would have been prepared for the emotions!!![/quote']

Honestly, even if you were told, you may not hv fully understood it until facing it & actually going through it. Its Great that you hv come through the emotional part on top. Its a lot to deal with physically & emotionally. Thank God we are survivors.

Citrucel is like that too. Tastes like tang. Imagine my surprise when it solidified. Weird practical joke would be to replace someones Orange Crystal Light with some of that. WTH???!!

Well yeah! Don't they let you walk at all? Too bad you cannot get into a pool yet. Maybe a few weeks from now? Zero gravity would feel nice :-)

I can't walk alone because the Valium is turning me into a zombie. Aside from dr appts I can't leave the house for at least six weeks. I am now officially a drug addled hermit, locked up in room six (we live in an old hotel). 100 years ago it was a women's hospital. They locked them up in the rooms and fed them opium. My how things have not changed!

I also was not told about the catheter that they placed durning surgery and didn't remove until 24 hours after surgery. I was NOT prepared for that or the horrible bladder spasms I had every hour !!!

Bladder spasms??? I'm afraid to ask what that is.

I, on the other hand, didn't have a catheter and wished I had. I had to go but couldn't, those muscles just wouldn't work for about 12 hours.

Butterthebean - you may have been having bladder spasms & that's why you had problems going.

Oh yeah the flood of hormones sends you la la!

Its up and down and side ways laughing one second crying your eyes out the next its really crazy stuff!

Several points I was watching or reading some funny stuff and laughing so hard I started to cry laughing which then just turned in seconds to me sobbing my heart out and I have no idea why then you start laughing again.

Thankfully that crazy flood didn’t last too many weeks with me maybe at a push 3 then back to normal me.

On another not I wasn’t catheter and I went just fine 1 hour after my op soon as I got on the ward and changed into my clothes I went and used the bathroom then zonked out in bed, had no problem going for the whole time I was in there 2 days on iv 1 off and drinking.

I can't walk alone because the Valium is turning me into a zombie. Aside from dr appts I can't leave the house for at least six weeks. I am now officially a drug addled hermit, locked up in room six (we live in an old hotel). 100 years ago it was a women's hospital. They locked them up in the rooms and fed them opium. My how things have not changed!

where ARE you, iggychic?!

I use Miralax and Target brand soluble fiber - dissolves completely in anything and has no taste. Miralax is an osmotic laxative, so it works by pulling fluid in from other parts of the body. So just be sure to add extra fluids (that in itself may help fix the problem too). Extra fluids wth fiber bulk is a must. The fiber will bulk things up regardless. But picture a bowl of pancake batter, and then throw a few cups of sawdust n it. What happens to the batter? The same thing that will happen to your poop if you don't have enough fluids. Saw this in an ER once. They guy literally backed up through his entire system. Just like a clogged toilet.