In 2008 I embarked on a journey to change my life for the better, or so I thought. At 96kg I decided to have gastric banding surgery. I had been 'big boned' my entire life and first visited the dietician when I was 12 years old. Then along came my children and 'life' and up went my weight. At my heaviest I was 110kg. I wanted to do this surgery for me. To make myself a better person, in my eyes. Instead of losing weight with the band I actually gained weight! In January 2010 I had the band removed and I weighed 101kg. With the band in I had recurrent pneumonia and never really felt well. Having the band removed was one of the best decisions I ever made. My next best decision was to have the Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy...My surgeon insisted on waiting at least 10 weeks for my stomach swelling to reduce before he would perform the VSG surgery. On 23rd March I was sleeved :scared0: I was prepared for a LOT of pain. The pain of having my band removed was excruciating so I was prepared for the worst. To my surprise there was no comparison. I didn't feel any pain. Not even gas pain. What I did have though was awful nausea. It was 3 days before I was able to hold the tiniest sip of fluid down. Day four was a turn around day for me. I felt really good and was holding fluids down so on day five I was able to go home. I still had my drainage bag in which had to remain for a further five days.The hospital have used the wrong tape and wound patches on my skin! I wore a special red allergy bracelet. Arggghhhh!!! The patches have burnt my skin and when I took them off they took my skin off with them. Not happy!!! I have no internal pain or pain where my sutures are. Instead I have weeping sore without skin!The past few days have flown by! I am at home and drinking all of my fluids. Well as much as possible anyway. It's day 8 today. Everything was going fine until my four year old decided to climb across my tummy to cuddle me while I was laying on the bed. When she did this she pulled my drainage tube. Now it's sooo sore. I've gone from being pain free to very sore :sneaky2:Today is Day 9. My drainage tube site was very badly infected when I woke up this morning. I can hardly move or even stand upright. It's agony. I was awake all night. I'm off to see my surgeon this morning. I'm dreading it because I know he will want to remove the bag and wow it's going to hurt like a bugger!