first order of business is to announce the following:

k20 (kellogs) Protein Water mix.. really yummy:tongue:. tastes exactly like regular pink lemonade, i highly recommend it!

I'll aoligize ahead of time for my writing... I am slipping back into a pain medicated haze... and articulation isn't the easiest.

im 3 days post op, and have slept almost the entire time:sleep:. the longest i've been awake is an hour... (right now in fact)

i've been pretty regular with the liquid pain meds... very, very sore and achy through my midsection. its been excruitating getting up from having been lying down in bed, and likewise when lying down from having been sitting. But, I am learning tricks and it's getting easier, not harder. i have a TOn of gas in my tummy... i'm an enormous balloon. Everytime a fart of burp comes along I get a little too excited, and tend to make an announcement to the whole house:rolleyes2:

from what i have been told a did have a hiatal hernia repaired during the procedure. Also, they had the band all fitted, when the "camera guy" apparently poked the band with a sharp instrument and popped it! So my surgeon had to remove the thing, and replace it! So my surgery was almost 4 hrs long, instead of 3. I did get a shower today, which was lovely. Painful, but lovely.

Ok, thats it for now.

Amh

Gas X strips. Will help dramatically with the gas & the pain....

Omg amh, he popped it? That's crazy. Understandable that your sleeping heaps though, I'm 6 weeks out and I find if I get woken abruptly now it takes me about 2-3 days to get my sleeping pattern back to normal and not be tired. Tiredness is just normal after this surgery, heaps of people have it. Just remember to rest, keep up your fluids so you don't get dehydrated and walk if you get pain instead of taking the gas x - Because technically the gas isn't in your stomach, it's in the cavity and all your really doing is putting gas-x down there when the gas isn't in your stomach, walking helps more instead. Good luck