I'm sleaved!

[shauna 0]

I was sleeved yesterday about 8 am, left the hospital today and am home. I feel great, just sore like I've done a bunch of sit ups. The worst part for me was removing the drain, ouch! Other than than I feel great, walked alot in the hospital, having a problem getting Water down but it's getting better. The gas builds up and as soon as I feel the pressure I take a deep breath and it subsides! So far so good, I can't believe it's over though..my journey begins now!!:svengo:

[yayawhat 0]

Amazing! Congratulations and welcome to the club!!!! Take it easy this week and let yourself heal!!

[MINI-Me 196]

Welcome to the Loser's Club. Keep in touch and let us know how you are doing.

[breekahouse 2]

yay! i cant wait to be in your shoes! hopefully only 2 or 3 more weeks to go. congrats and good luck. how was your experience with the anesthesia?

[suryfer 0]

Shauna,

Congrats!! Tomorrow will be 1 week post-op for me! I'm still very sore in my abdomen and having problems intaking enough Protein, but I think it will all get better!

Welcome to this side of the road and good luck on your journey!

Sury

[Mary Gordon 3]

good to hear you're doing great!!! wish you the best of luck, please keep us posted.:svengo:

[tennessee1031 0]

Yeah!!!!!!!!! Shauna!!!!!!!! Welcome to the wild side!

[slsandy 0]

Congratulations!

Sandy

[MELLAELLA 0]

Congratulations Shauna!!!i'm right behind you.Glad to hear your doing well!!!:001_smile:

[cajun 46]

WELCOME to the loser's bench Shauna. We are glad to have you alongside us on this journey. Let us know if we can help you.

[ishary 0]

woo hoo!!!

Congratulations!!!

:001_smile:

[coco517117 0]

Me too! Just sleeved on 2/15 - home now trying to sip down 64oz liquids. Sometimes my gulps are too big, feels horrible going down. Incisions a bit sore - unwilling to take pain meds as soreness isn't too terrible to deal with.

My stomach is making funky sounds, sometimes a little pressure when I switch up the liquids from sodium broth to sweet Gatorade. Any one else experience Week 1 this way?

Feel very tired all the time - hope will pass

[Lee 19]

Shauna, YAY!!! I'm right here on the loser's bench with you. How are you feeling today. I was the 17th and I feel absolutely terrific today. Very little pain and just lots of excitement!!

Has anyone heard about MellaElla and how she's doing?

[pumpkin07 32]

Well congrats all you new sleevers! I guess I'm a veteran now that I've already been sleeved for 11 days, huh?

I went to doctor today and he said I was okay. I really hear a lot of concerns about surgeon offices. I have some too, and I decided to share them with my doctor. He was so embarrassed. His staff is just not in tune to how big a deal this is and there is NO advocacy whatsoever. I kindly told him I felt this would eventually hurt his practice if he did not find a social worker/nurse/short-term case manager. Hopefully he LISTENED.

To top it off when I went in today he looked at his computer and finally said, I did do the bypass on you, right? I'm like holy crap - you don't even know which surgery you did for me? No wonder no one knows who I am when I call.......I am hoping he forgets to cash that check too, right?

I was soooooo kind and caring, and yet sooooooooooo confrontive. He is a good surgeon, but I kind of feel he is not getting the hang of the psychosocial/advocacy part of this - but heck, then again he doesn't even know the surgery he did. But as a business owner I totally get it. He is a NERD. He is not a business owner/manager. You can see he is lost and overwhelmed b/c his practice IS fairly busy. I kind of felt for him but I do NOT NOT NOT need another job as I have 2 businesses of my own. But I will refer someone to him if I meet the right person. Every business needs the nosey office manager person that meets a customer once and knows them forever.

But he did write me a prescription for my thyroid medicine so that is good. Worse yet, in his lobby I met a pretty old lady that had the sleeve with him Dec 28th and had a leak and was in the hospital for 30 days. That scared me shitless. She had a weird color to her, but she seemed to be recovering. She looked pretty old, I was wondering how old can you get this surgery. I would guess she was close to 70. She said they kept saying it was her spleen, but it was a leak. I mean crap people, is the doctor so overconfident that he wouldn't do a test as a precaution? Then she said, HOW are you getting your Protein in? And then they quickly called her to the back and I never saw her again.

My doctor is a decent surgeon from what I researched, so I don't want to bash him. He is a really nice man. But I won't personally refer him to ANYONE.

I've lost like 21 lbs but I can't figure out how to update my ticker.....I'll figure that out next.

[LAN2k 18]

Congratulations to Shauna, (hard to believe you were only in the hospital one day!), and Coco and all recent sleevees! You all seem to be doing excellent so early out. I wish you all smooth sailing as you go...Pumpkin thanks for sharing a bit about your surgeon. At 5 months out I'm still learning from those of you who are just starting your journey.