Afortunada

Hello everyone, I hope this post finds you well. I had my surgery 3 days ago on Jan 9th with Dr. David Suh in SoCal. I had mixed emotions on proceeding with the surgery mainly because of fear of not making it through the surgery and not being there for my kids. Luckily with my husband's support and doctor's confidence, I felt assured that everything would be fine. Upon waking from surgery I had the typical nausea symptoms but not significant pain at the incision areas (morpheme works wonders). As my stay at the hospital progressed I felt better. Walking helped tremendously with getting the gasses out of the abdominal area. I am now finding that the real efforts with staying hydrated is a challenge. Water intake is difficult only because its a sip at a time and with wanting to sleep during the day, one can easily get dehydrated. It will take some getting used-to. For now all I have is taking this journey one day at a time and before long will find all this second nature. Best of luck to everyone.

Excited about this new path that my life has taken. Was extremely difficult at first, but definitely no regrets! My best to everyone that continues on this journey!

You're an inspiration to us all! Great work and congratulations!

No need to worry, I understand this is fairly common. I also lost 20+ lbs during the first 1.5 weeks then stalled. Into the 2nd week, the scale started going down again. Hang in there and good luck.

Wishing you both a quick recovery as well. I too questioned if I had made the correct decision, but as days have progressed find that it was the pain, anxiety, the 'unknown' that were leading my thoughts. Not to say that I'm out in the clear now, but certainly everyday that goes by and the feeling of pain diminishing and being able to tolerate more water intake, reminds me and puts me back on track that I made the right decision.