I survived the first week post-op. There were definitely some glitches along the way but I'm doing ok. I still have a stitch in my side and my shoulder when I breathe deep so I'm assuming there's still a gas bubble in there but I'm not having to take pain meds for that anymore so that's a good sign.

I developed an allergic reaction to the steri strips so they had to come off and I've been taking Benadryl for a few days for that. So far it's been helping but it will be nice when the rash has gone away.

I've moved on to puree and that is helping with getting more protein in. Since moving to puree I'm able to get around 500-800 calories which is better than the 200-300 I was averaging last week.

I'm starting to get out more and went to the grocery store again. I was able to walk around without as much nausea but I still found myself looking at things that I love to eat and not really being drawn to them. I did, however, find myself reading just about every nutritional guide on all the foods, it was pretty funny. I'm able to have apple sauce now but when I looked at the nut guide I could not see any real nutritional value to it. What exactly does apple sauce give you? Very strange. I got some kids peach pieces that were fortified with vit a and c.

I think I may be having trouble with blood sugar. I'm finding myself waking up in the morning very shakey. I'll have to ask doc about that next week.

Hugs

Christy

Christy...thanks for reminding me! I get reactions to band-aids and surgical tape. They-docs always think it's the latex on the tape (I don't have a latex allergy) so they've used the paper tape on me, but I've come to find out that it's actually the adhesive on these tapes that I'm allergic to. I didn't even think about steri-strips being used on the incisions, so I'll have ask my surgeon about this...THANKS (you saved me some itchy red blistery moments...hope yours is better soon!) -BG