Hello! Dr. Lucktong is also my surgeon! He is really great and the staff there is so wonderful! I would be happy to answer any questions I can as well. As for the process, things for me went really well. I had my surgery scheduled for first thing in the morning, at 8:15. By about noon I was out of surgery, out of recovery and in my room. Of course I stayed overnight, but the staff there on "10 Mountain" (that's the floor you should be on) is really great, they don't typically have overnight patients so there are lots of people around to help. I didn't get much sleep that night as they have to come in and run vitals on you every few hours, but I suppose it went as well as could have been expected. The pain wasn't too bad and they hooked me up to a morphine pump which I didn't have to use too much so that was good. The key is getting up and walking around as soon as you can, that really helped me to feel better, not to mention lessening the risk of blood clots.
I went home the next morning about 10a and just chilled on the sofa drinking Water and gradually adding Protein shakes served up in a little medicine cup a few times an hour. I really wasn't hungry when I got home and that made the liquids easier to deal with. Two weeks of liquids only and then I have transitioned to mushies where I still am now. I have my first band adjustment on 3/14 and so far have lost about 22 pounds and I haven't had any complications so all in all things have been great and Dr. Lucktong and his staff have been really supportive too!
Are you going to the support group meetings? Kay, the dietitian runs those and I think I am going to start attending the ones there in Roanoke!
OK, this is a long post, but please let me know if you have any questions I can answer, feel free to post here or send me a private message or email!
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