Hello all! God Bless everyone on the Forums. My first post!

3rd day post op Gastric Bypass by Dr Green at Plaza Hospital in Fort Worth, Hospital. Feeling alot better than I did yesterday or the day before!

This Surgery is not for the faint of heart! I think the worst experience for me was the wait to eat or drink anything for 35 hours at the hospital...then having the barium swallow test sooo weak and the barium to be the first thing I tasted for that length of time. It tasted like terrible horrible chemical stuff and it had no flavor to it to hide it at all! Then the Radiologist just told me to chug the 30 ml...I could have pucked at him! With much protest and me telling him I just had a Gastric Bypass, he told me to do it anyway. I was NOT Amused!!!

Walking at the hospital as weak as I felt was another joy. High on Morphine and walking with a On-Q Bupivacaine pump around my neck attached to my belly and coming from under my gown, and rolling an IV going 150 ml/hr w/a Hespan gtt at 25ml/hr...needless to say I looked like a walking zombie. And the gown was 2 sizes too big...like they only have 2 sizes for bariatric patients...normal and T-Rex size and I kept getting the T-Rex size. My boobs were half coming out!

Another thing is the first Protein push-up I got in the hospital sucked butt! It was funny...here I was like okay I finally get something to eat...so I take a sip of the protein cherry stuff...and I almost barffed! Tasted TERRIBLE! Brrr! Blah! And on the package it said new improved taste...like from what??? Dog poop!

There was many good points of post-op...like not having to work as a nurse or be at work...just at another hospital....and I got to be the patient for a change! Lets just say...I felt scared...and even at night, I was reassured when someone came in to check on me because I felt like I was dying, even when I knew I wasn't. I had alot of Residents following my Doctor, so I was reassured by that too. That was a great gift!

Another thing is, Nurses need to check their patients more...they are supposed to check them once an hour during the day and every 2 hours at night, but I didn't get any of that...like I said, the doctors checked on me more often. I know this is like that in all hospitals...and I am guilty of being one of those nurses at work sometimes...but don't do it to post-op patients... Only check on the idiot with a boil on his butt twice in 8 hours for his meds...not the post-op patient ok!!!

Ok, enough said for now...going to watch TV with my Hubby....probably NCIS or something.

Love you all! Nicky :wub:

I have watched about 30 episodes of law an order. Lol!! It's kept me sane.

Anyway, you are so right. I was lucky to have a lot of nurses that actually had the surgery. They were so helpful!! Others were in the process.

Nicky, glad to hear you are progressing. :-)

Law and order! That made me laugh! I watched a marathon the entire time I was in the hospital. I didn't realize there were so many episodes

Right along with everyone on the nurses and Law and Order. The nurses at Bailey was awesome! I got released the day after my surgery due to I had done all that I was suppose to complete before going home. Still running low grade fever can not seem to shake it. Sent hubby to shop for some fleece pants and waiting on him to come back to see how he did!!! Lol

Hang in there everyone and the ones that are still in the hospital sending go home prayers your way.

I had my RNY done at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, FL 12 days ago. 1st my Dr does a drain, endoscopy, and barium swallow. All of the hard work paid off in peace of mind if nothing else. My nurses were fabulous and as helpful or not helpful as I needed. I never waited more than 5 minutes and when I called panicked in the middle of the night because I felt like my bladder was going to explode they didn't make me feel stupid. (I had fallen asleep on the tube and it had been backing up, so empty catheter bag/full bladder). The next day I was wheeled down for my barium swallow to xray. They had me sip a couple of times and it was done. The flavor was only so/so but not gag worthy. In addition my surgeon fixed a hiatal hernia he saw during the endoscopy that has corrected and GERD/acid reflux I was suffering. The Dr and his nurse Jennifer both came to see me while I was in recovery. I didn't really watch tv sorry I was sleeping. I also had a drain they checked and emptied every couple of hours. I was kept on a pain pump (not sure what it is called) until half way through day 2. Went home on day 3 feeling tired but good. I went for my followup yesterday and was moved to puree...Yeah! Sounds like your hospital wasn't very interested in your comfort, sorry that they treated you that way. Best of luck to you, hope the rest gets easier for you. Prayers.

Glad your doing well.... That Barium test was terrible!!! They physically put me in a machine that turned me around completely.

Yes!! I was flipped around too. Like an amusement ride!