Recouperating from my gastric bypass surgery
Current mood: contemplative
It's surreal to say the least that I actually went through with it and I am now a proud member of the losers bench. I had the surgery to have a long life and see my child grow, get married and see her child(ren). I have already noticed a difference in my diabetes, I have not had heartburn since the morning of surgery, by blood pressure was under control in the hospital and I assume if I check it now the same would be. My life is changing, for the good this time. It looks as though I will stay off my medicines, hopefully for good. I have been in a great deal of pain. I get asked a lot if it's as bad as I thought it would be but I honestly do not have an answer. I literally tried not to think about the details much pre-op as I did not want to talk myself out of doing something I feel I need to do. Eating is getting better as I have now moved onto "full-liquids"- I like the variety; chicken broth was getting OLD. I have two weeks of this, then one week of baby food consistency food, then I start my soft foods. I cannot wait to have some chicken. The protein shakes that I have to drink are putrid, it is VERY hard to get my protein in right now. Hopefully as I am able to add more foods it will be easier.
Getting used to eating and drinking 'the new way' is a lil difficult. Sipping all day is something I'll just have to get used to.
My incisions (6) hurt a lot, it feels as though I have been in a bar fight where they took all their anger out on my belly. The liquid Vicodin is disgusting and is a lil hard to get down the hatch. It does its job though, so I can't complain.
I am full of gas but I am still down over 5 pounds since the morning of surgery... not too bad.
I am tired a lot but I am sure that will get better real soon. I was actually able to sleep for almost 7 hours last night. That's definetely better than the 3-4 hours I have been getting lately.
So in all... do I regret it? No. Not yet anyway lol. And I don't see myself going there. It's hard, but I know it will be well worth it. Even if I never make it to goal, just to get rid of the diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heartburn, etc... is good enough for me.
It's surreal to say the least that I actually went through with it and I am now a proud member of the losers bench. I had the surgery to have a long life and see my child grow, get married and see her child(ren). I have already noticed a difference in my diabetes, I have not had heartburn since the morning of surgery, by blood pressure was under control in the hospital and I assume if I check it now the same would be. My life is changing, for the good this time. It looks as though I will stay off my medicines, hopefully for good. I have been in a great deal of pain. I get asked a lot if it's as bad as I thought it would be but I honestly do not have an answer. I literally tried not to think about the details much pre-op as I did not want to talk myself out of doing something I feel I need to do. Eating is getting better as I have now moved onto "full-liquids"- I like the variety; chicken broth was getting OLD. I have two weeks of this, then one week of baby food consistency food, then I start my soft foods. I cannot wait to have some chicken. The protein shakes that I have to drink are putrid, it is VERY hard to get my protein in right now. Hopefully as I am able to add more foods it will be easier.
Getting used to eating and drinking 'the new way' is a lil difficult. Sipping all day is something I'll just have to get used to.
My incisions (6) hurt a lot, it feels as though I have been in a bar fight where they took all their anger out on my belly. The liquid Vicodin is disgusting and is a lil hard to get down the hatch. It does its job though, so I can't complain.
I am full of gas but I am still down over 5 pounds since the morning of surgery... not too bad.
I am tired a lot but I am sure that will get better real soon. I was actually able to sleep for almost 7 hours last night. That's definetely better than the 3-4 hours I have been getting lately.
So in all... do I regret it? No. Not yet anyway lol. And I don't see myself going there. It's hard, but I know it will be well worth it. Even if I never make it to goal, just to get rid of the diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heartburn, etc... is good enough for me.
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