Today is day 4, I did entirely too much. My port incision feels tight and pulled like I may have done something to myself. Could have been when the cart rolled into me, could have been the pants, either way.. I will rest up for the rest of the day.

Today I woke up and had yogurt for breakfast, that kept me full, but I decided I needed a protein shake to go all day. When I got home from my moms, I did some work, and got dressed. I put on the loosest but still cute and professional outfit I could find, luckily for me I work from home for the most part but I did have appointments out today.

I made my shake to go and went off to my first appointment. Everything was fine until I had to follow him, he walked what seemed to me as "REALLY FAST" normally I keep up with him no problem. But I could feel my stomach tightening, gas? pain? pulling? dunno.. just make a joke so he'll slow down.. joke joke, ok I got nothing.. Sorry if I can't keep up with you today, just had surgery. "Oh ok" he says as if I had just said there was paper in the fax machine.. like umm ok.. awkward but whatever...

Finish with him and on to the next, I walk into the building and the smelll makes me nauseated.. umm ok gotta go... back to my car, driving driving driving.. trusty shake by my side.. wait sitting sitting sitting, but these are my big pants, why are they digging into me right there.. ahhh ok there we go..

Whole Foods, they have the BIG thing of Fage yogurt on sale for 6.99... yogurt got it, wait what's this brand it has 24 grams of protein, WOW.. hmmm ok.. let me try this one too, oh what else do they have.. An hour later.... on to the next place.

By the time I'm driving to the next place I'm nauseated from the gas pressure and I think I just did too much, lifting a grocery bag, walking around for an hour, etc.. but I still need some groceries.. Let me go to the store on the way home.

I get to my street.. I think I can..I think I can.. I go straight instead of turning, I pull into the parking lot and I sit in the car feeling wiped out but trying to psych myself up.. wait what do I even need again? Oh that's right SOUP!

I walk in, as normal as I could and see the motorized cart, I jump in, screw it, I need it.. MEEP MEEP!

I get my shopping done with ease, but I bought too much, how am I gonna get this home? sigh.. I drive the cart out to my car, put the items in the front seat. Go to drive the cart back into the store and it stalls going up the lil' incline and pushes the full force/weight of it onto my stomach.. OUCH.. the guy from inside comes from outside to help, and he yells at his female co-worker who is standing less than a foot from me, for not helping me. I don't necessarily agree with HOW he said it, but i'm glad he said it so I didn't have to.

I come home and pull out the light things, the rest can wait.. inside groceries put away as much as possible, pants off.. ahhhh hmm I'm hungry... WOW that was the BEST cream of chicken and mushroom soup I've ever had in my whole life.. I would hurt someone for some pizza right now.. I don't even like pizza.. but I do like the crust.. mmmm

Soup.. delicious.. couple hours later, I wasn't hungry but because I knew it was in there I had some chicken salad.. I wanted to see how it went down, how hard it was to chew, etc.. all in all I had about 1 tablespoon of it, maybe a lil' less. Went down well, tasted even better... tomorrow I'll eat that.. tonight is my first night home, my first night sleeping in a bed, I layed on my bed at my moms but it was too high and hard to get up and down from, the couch, too cushy, the recliner, just right... so I stayed and slept in that recliner 95% of the time..

So now I'm in bed laying on my side.. wanting to roll onto my stomach and just SLEEP a good sleep..

on the upside NO pain meds today, all systems are GO and now I'm just tuckered out.. so with that I will say good night world.

Ymjackson sounds like your up and running pretty fast after surgery. How much gas pain did you get? I hear that people get bad gass pain. If not what have you done to avoid gas pain.

Honestly I've just kept active and I didn't lay around. Even if I was "relaxing" or sleeping, I was in a recliner in a mostly upright position so the gas couldn't really deposit anywhere. Get up and walk every hour, even if it's just a few steps, get up and move.

Last night (night of day 4) was my first night in my bed, I was so comfortable, I overslept but evidently my body needed it. Short of my arm and shoulder hurting from sleeping in the same position all night (had to be careful of the incisions) my gas is pretty much gone and I feel 98%, then again I've only been up for about 30 mins lol..

I have some very light gas pain in my other shoulder but it's not really noticeable.

Also I only used the gas-x the first day and half, after that I stopped using it. Your body is a miraculous machine capable of healing itself, if you just do what it's telling you.

Hope that helps.

You are doing great! Yesterday was my first day of really feeling good and I think I overdid it too. I didn't run errands, but I did more around the house and was feeling pretty worn out by the end of the day. Today is the first day I have to put on real pants. Luckily, I have some jeans that are loose and stretchy. I have a 3 hour post-op class at the hospital. I think it is mainly to meet w/the dieticians and talk about what we have eaten so far and how to deal w/any challenges in the first month. We do it as a group, same group that I did my pre-op class with, so it will be fun to see how everyone is doing. Anyway, you are doing great! Congrats to you!!!

Congrats sounds like your a trooper I hope I do as good as you. Here's another question I was told you could not have gas X or any other medication, and that if we took anything in it would have to be liquid. How true is this. Keep up the good work.

Congrats sounds like your a trooper I hope I do as good as you. Here's another question I was told you could not have gas X or any other medication, and that if we took anything in it would have to be liquid. How true is this. Keep up the good work.

Gas-x comes in strips now like the listerine breath strips. It just disolves on your tongue. I was able to take my BP med and everything else has either been liquids or gummies. No medicine larger than the size of a baby asprin. My BP meds are that size so I'm good. Before you go into surgery you should get a RX from your surgeon prescibing liquid loritab or something similar.