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Officially A Sleever!

VSG AJH

By VSG AJH, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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VSG AJH    499

VSG AJH
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Hooray! I was finally officially sleeved today around noon. I've been in my room now for about three hours, and I've already taken in a good bit of liquids, used the toilet, and been out for a couple of laps around the wing.

I had a bit of pain coming out of anesthesia because my surgeon uses a tap block instead of a pain pump. It takes a while to kick in evidently, but in spite of that, he didn't put me on a PCA pump with pain meds in it (I have a sensitivity to morphine). Instead, I've been given some other pain medication through the IV, and that's decreased the pain significantly. Feeling a little tender, and have a bit of gas pain, but nothing unmanageable.

I had a bit of nausea (no vomiting) in recovery, but I think it was related to the unmanaged pain. As my pain quickly came under control, so did the nausea. I have also felt the discomfort of restriction. Water, ice chips, Decaf tea, and broth have gone down in good quantities and without discomfort, but sugar-free Popsicles and sugar-free Jello haven't been fun. Still no vomiting, but certainly not a pleasurable intake. Not sure if the discomfort is related to swelling, volume, taste, texture, etc. I'll try again later on after I haven't had broth or water also.

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joatsaint    2,814

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Congrats on having such a good recovery. Now start Pimpin' that Sleeve! :-)

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Madam Reverie    2,958

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You look great!

Welcome to the madness and have a very quick recovery. Keep us posted :)

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L-in-NJ    136

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Congrats!! Glad to hear you're doing well. My day is tomorrow.!! I'm super excited!!

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Carlotta1    401

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Good for u that u r feeling well and the surgery was successful.

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DirtyHarriett    94

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Wishing you a speedy and uneventful recovery!

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VSG AJH    499

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Thanks to you all! Up at 3:00 A.M. for a couple more laps around the nurse station and a redose of liquid Lortab. All in all, doing pretty well!

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marfar7    1,533

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Wow. Im impressed at ur ability to post. I couldn't even read my keyboard straight cuz of the pain meds. All the letters looked the same. Couldn't text till the next day.

Congrats. Hope to see ur success soon...

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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
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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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        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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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