In the hospital, got my IV in and all set waiting for the doc to come... Half an hour to go till surgery... Still nervous, but trying not to back out... Hopefully in few hours it will be history and I can just start healing...

Keep me in prayers please!

No. ☹️. I have boyfriend. Not hear all the time, my kids are grown.

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I think you will be fine. Let some of your friends know that you might need their help on certain days. One think that I got that is helpful is the clasp thingy for picking things up when I drop them because it's hard to bend down lol it's silly but it's helpful.

Post op day 5:

Doing much better today, drain output is looking better and better everyday, I seem to be able to go longer without the pain meds, had really bad gas pains yesterday, hoping to have BM so I can feel even better. Follow up with surgeon tomorrow, might be removing the drain, just keep on working on my protein intake and fluids... I realized that my sips have to be even smaller then what I was already thinking small... Definitely something to get used to.

Hi all,

It's been a week since surgery... I am doing much better, finally able to tolerate Water that is room temperature, before I was getting pain with anything that wasn't warm, which I am excited about because I can keep sipping and getting my water intake up.

I got my drain and stitches out but still have the strips on. Went for a about 30-45 min walk with doggies and hubby today, got pretty tired so nap is definitely about to happen. That's one thing is that I don't have energy but it will come. So far I am tolerating everything l ( the only thing I had yesterday was Mexican tortilla broth) and I didn't even think about this before I had it, but had some discomfort after it and I think it's because it has pepper at some point... I am supposed to stay away from pepper for a while.

5.9 lbs down since surgery.... I will definitely be a slow loser but I will still to what I need to do and hopefully get there.