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How long did it take you to return to work?

How did you feel?

Teaching is very demanding I need to know how you guys coped with it when you returned.

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I got sleeved on June 28th, so I had most of the summer to recover. I did sub for summer school for one week 3 weeks after my surgery, and did fine but summer school was only half a day. Now I am back at work full time at 2 months out, and doing fine with lots of energy. I originally was thinking of having surgery over spring break and I'm glad I didn't. There is no way I could have gone to work after only a week or 10 days, but maybe some people could. It took me 2 months to regain my energy. Lots of fatigue the first 4 weeks after surgery. I took lots of naps.

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I was sleeved on August 7 and went back on August 13 to work registration. I teach/ coach and just took it easy. I haven't had any problems and am loving my sleeve!

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Hi! I took four weeks off. I was off before spring break and I returned when the kids came back. I teach sixth grade- SDC LH. My job can be very demanding. I definitely needed the four weeks. I was extremely tired, light headed, and an emotional mess.

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It looks like to need to take more than 2 weeks off. I teach 5th grade. I am already suffering with the fact that I have the leave them with a sub but i have to take care of me.

I also wanted to know how did you eat your lunch? I only have a 20 minute lunch break (with the students of coarse). It takes at least 30 minutes to get the meal down. I guess I will figure these things out with time.

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I teach fifth grade as well. I have a 20 minute break and I just try to snack during class. I generally will eat some turkey meat and string cheese and a yogurt. During my lunch break I will eat a few crackers and some chicken salad that I make with chicken breast. You will be fine. I am two months out as well but I really didn't have any energy problems. I taught summer school from 7:15 - 1:00 so it was a long day but I did well. I only took off a week.

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I eat a packet of tuna for lunch or a yogurt. Then later I will eat a piece of string cheese or one of the 100 calorie cottage cheese. I also still drink shakes from costco. They have 30 grams of Protein in one shake.< /p>

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How long did it take you to return to work?

How did you feel?

Teaching is very demanding I need to know how you guys coped with it when you returned.

I started teaching 2 weeks after my sleeve. I teach Art (kindergarten - 5th grade). I didn't have any complications or problems with my sleeve. I couldn't lift anything over 10 pounds. I bet you will be just fine.

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I was sleeved Aug 6th and kids started Sept 5th, I teach kindergarten and the first week I was tired every night...I got side cramps at the end of each day. It helped me drink my Water, because I was so thirsty from talking. Also if I don't have my Protein Shake before work, I feel weak and have an empty pain in my body. lunch I have 30 min without kids, I have been eating in my room and taking the entire time to eat 3 Tbsp of food.< /p>

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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.

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