I guess this isn't quite post op yet, but I just watched my hubby walk off to the OR.

I had my surgery on Nov. 5th and he's having his right now. Needless to say our holidays were/are going to be a little different this year. That said, I'm looking forward to the new year and our new bodies and hopefully our new relationship. With both of us becoming so overweight over time the quality of our lives and relationship has paid a steep price.

I think that's great, I have heard of a few others doing this together as well! How wonderful to be able to take the journey with someone! I myself am a little nervous of how this is going to work with my husband. He is not obese but has a very low activity level and I don't think he's going to want to 'change' with me because he doesn't need to?

Are you ok? Is someone in the waiting room with you?

Congrats on doing this together!! Dare I say that this is rather romantic?

Good luck!

Thanks! All is well.

Everything went well and I was able to visit him in recovery for a few minutes. Now we're waiting for a hospital bed.

how exciting 2013 will be for you both, gratz!

Good luck to you and your hubby! My husband and I did our surgeries 2 weeks apart. It really helped that we did it together... I feel like our relationship has grown stronger because of it too!

Hubby hasn't been released from the hospital yet. He hasn't been able to pass gas yet and he has an elevated WBC count and temperature, but not high enough to call a fever. He had an X-ray yesterday and they said that they can see that the contrast from his swallow test is moving through the colon. He's just not passing the gas. Hopefully today, but I'm concerned about the WBC being elevated with no determined reason why.

Hubby hasn't been released from the hospital yet. He hasn't been able to pass gas yet and he has an elevated WBC count and temperature' date=' but not high enough to call a fever. He had an X-ray yesterday and they said that they can see that the contrast from his swallow test is moving through the colon. He's just not passing the gas. Hopefully today, but I'm concerned about the WBC being elevated with no determined reason why.[/quote']

Not to restate the obvious, but walking around the hospital halls is really necessary for your body to let go of the gas. Is he getting up and walking every couple hours or so? It is also good to do this in order to prevent blood clots from forming. I hope everything works out as planned.

walk walk walk

Thanks everyone. He's walking - in fact much more than I was at this point! He went into the surgery with several co-morbitities (is that what they are called) including MS so I don't know if that's working against him? It's frustrating bc he isn't really getting much info from his constantly changing care staff at the hospital.

We're home!!! The gas moved and he's comfortable at home. Well as comfortable as possible

Glad to hear it went well. ,