relateableRN

Hey everyone. I’m going to be getting the sleeve in a couple of months but every time that I work I have huge second thoughts because I don’t know how I will find the time to eat and sip water all day between managing patients. I work on a tele/step down unit with four patients. Anyone out there have any thoughts?

Yea, I think the best suggestion yet has been the tiny water bottle to carry around in the scrubs. Thanks for the suggestions!

Yes, indeed. Who am I telling people not to create problems where there are non? You're free to make your own life as complicated as you want to of course. So I apologize. No idea how healthcare providers eat and drink while on 12 h or 24 h shift after they have decided to make things as complicated as possible but when on 24 h shift I eat and drink (and sleep) when I have the chance to do so and that worked quite fine from the beginning on: while doing computer work, between two interventions, while waiting for a patient to arrive... Only thing you need to apologize for is coming into a community that is suppose to be supportive and helpful and instead just being negative.

Thanks! That’s helpful. I think when they are telling you all that stuff and then you think about how it is when you are at work it seems so overwhelming and like you won’t be able to do it. Did you have a lot of pain like with moving patients, etc?

Out of curiosity, are you a nurse? Sometimes I can go a whole twelve hour shift without drinking any water I will be that busy. Or I will chug half a water bottle and walk away for four or five hours. I can’t slowly be sipping water while I am inserting an IV or doing wound care or answering questions of a concerned family member. So this is a legitimate question I have, of how fellow nurses managed this.

Did you feel light headed or foggy? Did you have a lot of pain with re-positioning patients or doing procedures?

Yes....please share any tips you have!

I understand. But I’m just wondering how people were feeling at certain stages.

Yea...my weight management doctor told me I should only be out for a week then at the orientation the surgeon said a month. So I am also wondering how long people with professions like these took off.

Well I was told post op I can drink 30ml every fifteen minutes. So 120ml basically an hour. But if I am in a patients room I can’t be sipping water while trying to get an IV or putting a foley in