Sunnyday25

Amazing news I am so glad you are already on to pureed foods my Dr insists that we all do 2 weeks liquids sigh I can feel a real lack of energy and some depression when it is dinner time and every one is eating and I am sitting there with my thimble full of soup lol

How is the recovery going for those who have had surgery I have my 2 week appointment on Wednesday I am super excited to find out what I have lost and to be able to be moved to pureed foods the liquids for the two weeks has been hard but in a way helpful because I caught some bad habits I had never even noticed before

salt everything is too salty I made dinner for the fam last night and tasted the juice to make sure the seasonings where right and I was like wow the whole thing is just ruined had my daughter come taste it and she was like nope tastes normal weird stuff

Yes this is exactly what I am doing I tried a bottle of water yesterday as I had a huge amount of errands to run and I was so worried that I was drinking too much or too little just all consumed by water intake

How long did everyone use their little one ounce cups for, how did you do the transition to "big girl cups" and how did you handle going out like shopping where maybe its harder to get your water. Right now I am supposed to be drinking 1 ounce every 10 minutes does that change when I go on to the mushy foods part of the diet??

Did you try the unflavored, how was it? I ordered it to mix into clear drinks

Woohoooo I second the walking they got me up at 5am for my first lap around the nurses station after that I made a point of doing 25 laps a day cause it helped all of my pain

Both had the dreaded milk products warning I've never been lactose intolerant before so it's all new to me

The premiere shakes tore me up so did the isopure clear they both made me very sick and a lot of pain because of the gas/bloat so early out from surgery so right now I am very careful it has to have less than 1%

I actually got a couple of the isopure waters lactose free milk free whatever cuz I can't have that now either I'll admit they're not good I had to mix two packets of Crystal Light into the bottle but at least it's not making me gag and when you work it out it's two grams of protein per 1-ounce shot which is helpful to think of instead of oh my God I have to finish the entire gigantic bottle I'm going to look at the other ones you suggested though

My doctor has been very specific I can not start vitamins until after the 2 week check up. I did immediately start a probiotic, Prilosec, and potassium

Good luck to everyone today prayers and well wishes

So pre surgery and until yesterday (5 days post) I have been using muscle good labs Isolate mixed with cashew milk its great protein but its a mix and a bit flat on the flavor. My Doctors gives suggested recipes for shakes but all they use is Premier from cost co so I say what the heck I am in need of a switch a roo and hubby picks up a case of every flavor ( he really is the best) So yesterday I make the recipe as written and they say to blend it which causes all kinds of foam and I drank it any way I know I know dumb idea really bad gas felt awful ended up missing all my numbers yesterday. I wake up feeling great this morning and I grab another premier this time straight from the bottle and bam by 2pm I sick with gas so my hypothesis is that nothing else has changed it must be the premier has anyone else had this issue please what did you do and how did you lessen the gas I have taken a gas x and I am working on peppermint tea now but this is going to throw my day off again

They said it was a possibility that they would take it so at least I was aware that it was a chance. Thank you for the prayers I really appreciate them I want to be the ideal student and when I go to the doctor have my diary and have it show that I hit all my numbers every single day cuz that's the personality I am and these two days I have maybe hit half the mark.

I didn't have gas pain in the hospital my gas issues just recently came to say hello. I had pain on the right side where they took out my gallbladder and the port with a bunch of scar tissue and now that I am home I have the sharp pain on the left side phew its killer and of course gas. I am having a really hard time getting them in mainly because of the gas I cant drink anything its killer

What ever it is the devil himself created it is awful and it is throwing all of my numbers off for water and protein gas x doesn't seem to help much and walking is doing a darn thing sigh reminder to self lets wait till we are feeling better before we go off and try new things

Don't focus on the time I got there all ready to go and the surgery should have started at 11didnt go back until almost 2

It was really bad for me last night for me its a ripping pain on my left side it is so sharp and long lasting and it radiates up into my breast last night was awful I actually have a pretty high pain tolerance and avoid pain meds like the plague last night I ended up taking two Vicodin and after about an hour and a half the pain had subsided enough for me to doze never really sleep but doze it was something

to be honest with you I don't want anything but water I am super thirsty and I have had no issues getting the needed amount in I am not hungry at all and they gave me crystal lite I the hospital it was god awful sweet I haven't tried it at home yet maybe tomorrow

you look amazing keep up the good work

oh man I have that too on the right side I describe it as a torn feeling it comes and goes but when it says hello I sit up and pay attention

Okay I'm back home surgery went pretty well they ended up taking my gallbladder because I found a small polyp in it. Painless pretty intense the first day at the surgery and then it hit its peak at 3 a.m. I guess technically the morning after the surgery it was really bad. I had severe shortness of breath and my heart was all over the place so they ended up ordering at CAT scan of my chest and ultrasounds of my legs to look for blood clots and then an upper GI to make sure everything was in order. I'm glad to say that all of those tests came back normal and my shortness of breath is still here but obviously getting much better. They kept me in hospital for 2 days technically three because I wasn't released until 8 last night. The nurses were phenomenal at my hospital I felt very good and taking care of I walked a grand total of 50 laps around the nurses station and every time I went at least one nurse and look at how good your doing. When they release me my heart was still a little bit all over the place but the doctor felt confident that I'd be okay going home. So here I am I got up this morning and did walk the length of my house 8 times I had my first breakfast which was super runny yogurt took my Prilosec and crushed at my potassium and hid it in the yogurt. I also got to take the bandages off today and take a nice warm shower that I'm very tired after all the activity and will be in bed for the next hour to hour and a half. How did everybody else do you had surgery on the 9th 10th or 11th

So how did it go everyone

Today is my big day took my antibacterial shower and now I smell lovely lol, and we will be heading to the hospital in about 28 minutes wow it is surreal, I am nervous, scared and excited!! Good luck to all my other 9th brothers and sisters, and also the 10ths and 11ths if there are any.

welcome to the first day of the rest of your life.....good luck everyone