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Ten days after band was put in

It has now been ten days after the band was put in and I am experiencing some slight problems. My stitches are dissolving before my incisions have healed and are opening. The doctors told my that they cannot restitch them, they have to heal from the inside out. Of course this will leave major scaring because they are gaping holes. I was told to was the holes 3x a day with peroxide, and put a little piece of gauze on it to keep foreign objects out, and hope i dont get and infection on the inside.   When my first hole opened up I was so scared this was my first surgury. I was shaking uncontrolably, and in alot of pain. Luckily my boyfriend was there to help me calm down, (he had broken his femor and had to go through a lot of surguries).   A week to ten days is what the doctor said it would take to heal. lets hope all goes well.
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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Jan 3 and all is going well i think

Well now its Jan. 3, 2007 and my incisions are healing very slowly but surely... I got to help take my puppy to the vet today, I felt so bad because now he's going to ingore me all day because of it, but he had to go, it was also the first car ride i've been on in a while, because the seat belts would rub on my stitches. So i was really excited!   I know it sounds boring but it was fun for me because i haven't gone out in a while i just walk on the treadmill and do stuff around the house.
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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Great day

I got to see my boyfriend today, he is my main emotional support, but since we are on Xmas break for college i dont get to see him very often because he lives a couple hours away. But he saw me for the first time today, and he stopped and looked at me and gave me a hug then he said "WOW you've lost alot of weight I can tell. And you look thinner already." (although i've only lost 15 lbs since he last saw me) I was so happy to hear that, and instead of walking on the treadmill today we went for a walk around town. It was nice to see him, he has really helped with my pre op nerves and post op nerves. I dont know how to thank him enough.
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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Good news about stitches

I drove to my LB doctors today, and he looked at my incisions that are opening and he said they look great they are healing well and that no infections have entered my body or my band so I was excited to hear that. But he did tell me to continue to wash them out with peroxide 3x a day. but he said if i have any complications to call him immediatly, and that he would see me on the 15th of Jan on my first check up
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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First day

My first day I only got pain medicine once and that was a small amt. after the operation. that was about 11:30am. they told my to rest a bit. I was up and walking by 12:15pm, the nurses didnt help me though. I had to sit up by my self put my IV on the little rolling carrier and walk to where i needed to go and come back and then, try to get back in bed with our hurting my self. it kind of sucked at first trying to figure out how to sit up but you get a hang of it eventually.   Good thing I have a pretty good pain tolerance.
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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feeling a little funny

First things first... This is kind of my blog of what is happening since my surgury if you do not want to read a blog, just dont bother reading my journal, because I'm just tracking how I feel and what is happening to me.       Wasn't feeling so hot today, I had a stomach ache because I tried taking all of my meds today. I didn't crush the one because my doctor said it would be ok to take it as is, so we'll see how I feel later. Hopefully the stomach ache is just from being off of the medicine so long. But I'm learning ' No matter what, just think positive' , it makes the day seem a little better.   Tomorrow I get to go shopping for supplies for when I go back to college! I'm hoping I'll be feeling ok, even though I strongly dislike shopping, it will be fun to see how I feel beings that school is coming up and I can't sit during my classes (there all lab classes so we don't get any chairs to sit on from 8am-3pm) I think a day full of stress filled shopping is sort of similar. Lets hope all goes well.
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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Back from my first week

As the title says I'm back home from my first week of college for my first LB check up... I REALLY NERVOUS!!!.... ANd Scared.... hoping all is going to go well and i can wait to have some meat with my scrambled eggs!!
DieselAngel2005

DieselAngel2005

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