Hello:

I has my VSG on April 16th. I work as a Reg. Nurse and my employer will not let return to work until I can "lift" a minimum of 50 lbs!

Everything I have read so far does not address at what point I can lift 50 lbs so I can return to work.

I am so used to working, I miss it!

My instructions is 5 lbs the first week and add 5 lbs each week there after.

We share the same date and im close to finishing the prerequisites so I can enter nursing school. Good luck!!!!!

Hey There! Congrats on making the choice for a healthy lifestyle as a student nurse because one of the biggest problems we face as floor nurses are ALL the cakes, Cookies, and candy the families of grateful patients give as "thank you's" they give the nursing staff after we treat their loved-ones inpatient.

I found this especially to be true during my years on the Mother/Baby Unit!!! That's when I gained the most weight!

Also--working NOC shift we nurses often use "food" and that sugar rush to keep us awake during the 12 hour shift!

I just know now I'll have to walk through the break room with blinders on so I'm not tempted by the never ending amass of sweets on the table in there!!

So since we share the same surgery date --how have you been doing these past three weeks? I had inretractable nausea and emesis that keep me in the hospital for a full week after surgery! I JUST got advanced to puréed diet--and the nausea has come back with a vengeance! So it's back to full liquid diet again--I am so bummed

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So bummed, at my 3 weeks surgeon visit I was informed that they can't clear me to return to work within my DONs parameters for another MONTH!!

I also was told I have a large hematoma located in my abdomen and that is slowing my recovery process.

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