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Bulliemom thanks I am actually going to call him this week and see cause I want so badly to get in exercise as much as I can during the first 6-8 months as that is the time you lose the most weight and if I'm spending it healing then I am going to still lose but not how I planned to spend my post surgery? It also looks really nasty, and I don't even like being around my hubbyman without my shirt or anything cause I don't want him to see me like that, he does everything he can to help me but I don't like him seeing me like that?

So up till now my post surgery has been no fun at all? I first had the worst time when I got out of surgery and the bed was awful at the hospital, I should have just slept on the floor? Then I got out of the hospital after spending one night but got home and was great for the first 6 days or so and then one week post op and I got horribly sick, fever, head cold, it was awful, at one point thought my incision was infected, and so I went to my doctors and he said it was not infected just oozing crap from the fat tissue they had to cut through to get to my insides, and that is when I found out the reason I had a larger incision than originally though with all the staples, and that turned out because I am a very tiny girl on the inside? Wow who would of thought after all this time? So the staples were just awful for the 2 weeks I had to have them in, they felt like they were stabbing me all the time, they really sucked. So yesterday I finally got the staples out and as i'm in there he is upset at how red it is around the staples and my incision and so as he pulls out the staples and starts pressing on the incision to push the oozing stuff out, the whole incision that was supposed to be closed up is now wide open again? He can't close it back up because of the oozing, and so now I have to let it heal from the inside out? I also have to wear a maxi pad on it cause he said it would be the best thing to cover it and soak up the crap, and I have to change that every hour or so? It has been all issues since I got out of that dam surgery, and I don't regret getting the surgery, but dang it can't I just heal up like normal people? I just want to cry all the time at all I am dealing with. I want to start working out more and getting in a routine and I can't now because of this. I can do little things, like I can walk, and I can lower body stuff and arm stuff, but nothing from the neck to the waste? That's where I want to lose weight??? Is it ever going to get better? Anyone have a clue? Anyone else go through what I am going through? This sucks!!!!

Thanks Amy I am just taking it easy!! I am listening to my body right now!!!

Thanks Queenie!!! Good to know I'm not alone!!!! Sillyolme I got my surgery the 19th of march at mercy hospital and they are the leading hospital in my area that does these surgeries and my doc has a very high success rate. It has nothing to do with being wronged its all in how people heal. The only other surgery that I had was a c-section with my youngest and the same thing happen to me with that incision but I had to be bed ridden for the most part cause where that one was and I had an in home nurse come in to clean it everyday and pack it? So I just don't heal good from surgeries???? Maybe when I lose all my weight???

Freak the calories, it's going to be hard enough to get in your fluids at first, water and protein, just do what you can, and have your coffee, it won't hurt you!!! But you may have to decide on a different one after cause that is a lot of calories? Try new things, your tastes for things is going to change after the surgery!!! Trust me mine has!!!

I drank 1 cup of coffee a day while in preop? I love my coffee, but I can't drink it now? Atleast now how I like it? I used to get Dunkin med mocha w/cream and 1 splenda, and can't have that mocha anymore, but I am trying today to have french vanilla coffee? I love my flavors and the french vanilla is sugar free, so maybe I can drink it? Drink it now cause post surgery you don't know whats going to change?

As I said before I think its a great idea. We have support meetings here where I live, but they are run by a lady that has no idea what it's like to go through what we have gone through? I would much rather run or go to a party run by someone that has the experience of what we live on a day to day basis. The support group here is for pre and post surgery people, and i thing that is the best thing, they only have it for the people that need to go to a support group by their insurance. I didn't have to do that for my insurance approval?

I got the email this morning and I think it's a fantastic Idea,. I love talking to everyone on here, but talking to people face to face also helps. I support it!!!

So I am a week out and I came down with this wicked fever and so I'm sitting here feeling ucky, and normally I would be able to have my comfort foods when I feel this way but I can't and I'm craving something to and it's all mind craving cause I'm not hungry??? I am just staying away from the kitchen for the most part!!! I am so not going to eat something that will make me sick!!! I cant wait till i can start working out, when I get those cravings ill just work out to work those cravings away!!!

Yeah April it looks like I have a zipper down the from of me kinda weird!!! Lol

Hey long road, I just can't wait to get these darn staples out they suck so bad!!!

Don't feel bad my hubbyman he does that all the time, he forgets all the time & he lives with me so imagine that??? Its like no love I can't have that??? Even when it does smell fantastic???

I agree 6 months from now we should be half way there!!! Don't get discouraged that its only 12 that's just a number, its how you feel that's the biggest thing!!! I am definitely going to post pics every month!!!

Hey jess me either with the nausea??? I am going Thursday to get staples out!!! I freaking can't wait!!! I am trying things!!! I have 2 shakes a day which count for my protein cause they are 30 grams of protein per scoup, one for breakfast & one for dinner then throughout the day I have yogurt, pudding, cheese stick, is had some of the cup of noodle soup chicken, sugar free popcicles, mind you this isn't everyday these are just some things I've tried!!! Plus lots of water but I found I can't drink water unless it is like really cold? Like half frozen? But I'm happy so far! I'm 1 lb away from 20 lbs down!!! Woohoo

Ok, so wednesday will be 2 weeks post op for me, and I know I am still healing, but how long does it take to feel normal where the pain of the surgery is gone? I have a 3" incision in front, with staples that are coming out Thursday and I can't wait till they come out, as they hurt. I am aware that it may take time but how long is a normal recovery time to feel half way normal?

Never got any pain pills? But my hubby man just got vicadin for breaking a toe I might use one!!! Thanks for the advice Kristina!!!

I didn't have staples when I had my c-section, I had stitches, but then my incision busted open on it's own so I had to have an in home nurse come in and care for me for an extra 2 weeks, it was awful. I push myself too quickly to get better. I am such a bull?