NickyRenee

I need to find the motivation to exercise...I hate it. Reading all your posts gives me encouragement, especially the "NO FLABBY SKIN" remark from perezhe1!!! Thank you all!

Hello all! God Bless everyone on the Forums. My first post! 3rd day post op Gastric Bypass by Dr Green at Plaza Hospital in Fort Worth, Hospital. Feeling alot better than I did yesterday or the day before! This Surgery is not for the faint of heart! I think the worst experience for me was the wait to eat or drink anything for 35 hours at the hospital...then having the barium swallow test sooo weak and the barium to be the first thing I tasted for that length of time. It tasted like terrible horrible chemical stuff and it had no flavor to it to hide it at all! Then the Radiologist just told me to chug the 30 ml...I could have pucked at him! With much protest and me telling him I just had a Gastric Bypass, he told me to do it anyway. I was NOT Amused!!! Walking at the hospital as weak as I felt was another joy. High on Morphine and walking with a On-Q Bupivacaine pump around my neck attached to my belly and coming from under my gown, and rolling an IV going 150 ml/hr w/a Hespan gtt at 25ml/hr...needless to say I looked like a walking zombie. And the gown was 2 sizes too big...like they only have 2 sizes for bariatric patients...normal and T-Rex size and I kept getting the T-Rex size. My boobs were half coming out! Another thing is the first Protein push-up I got in the hospital sucked butt! It was funny...here I was like okay I finally get something to eat...so I take a sip of the protein cherry stuff...and I almost barffed! Tasted TERRIBLE! Brrr! Blah! And on the package it said new improved taste...like from what??? Dog poop! There was many good points of post-op...like not having to work as a nurse or be at work...just at another hospital....and I got to be the patient for a change! Lets just say...I felt scared...and even at night, I was reassured when someone came in to check on me because I felt like I was dying, even when I knew I wasn't. I had alot of Residents following my Doctor, so I was reassured by that too. That was a great gift! Another thing is, Nurses need to check their patients more...they are supposed to check them once an hour during the day and every 2 hours at night, but I didn't get any of that...like I said, the doctors checked on me more often. I know this is like that in all hospitals...and I am guilty of being one of those nurses at work sometimes...but don't do it to post-op patients... Only check on the idiot with a boil on his butt twice in 8 hours for his meds...not the post-op patient ok!!! Ok, enough said for now...going to watch TV with my Hubby....probably NCIS or something. Love you all! Nicky :wub:

Thank you all for replying!!! I'm on my 1 week anniversary now. It;s been a LONG week! The GAS is TERRIBLE !!!!! Thank God they told me to take Gas-x!!! Still on a liquid diet, but I cheat with alittle beef or bananas & oatmeal baby food level 1. It feels so good when I eat the baby food.. I feel full in the little tummy of mine.

I too felt alot of emotions! I had my GB surgery on 11/29/12. The day before, I just slept the whole day, and didn't even get my vitamins, or anything. I was just scared. Thank God for my family who got all I needed either the night before or the next day after coming home. It was amazing how all of them came to help me. You are not alone in this. Love, Nicky

Hello, If you don't give the body protein, it will take it in muscle. Bad idea...also, you are gaining alittle because the body is indeed in storing mode.