Melliecat,
Here I am at home already! My surgery was at about 2pm and I was home by 5:15pm! It was a lot easier than I anticipated . . . some of the war stories by previous banders scared me. I refused the morphine in the hospital and took the liquid Lortab instead and I'm glad I did. I'm sore, of course, and have a litte gas, but so far, so good! I haven't been exactly hungry but my stomach was growling since I hadn't had anything by mouth since 10pm last night, so I had some cream of chicken soup and drank high protein Isopure. All-in-all, not a bad experience (so far)! Hope yours goes as well!