I'm on the other side

1-4-Many · April 30, 2011

So I was sleeved Wednesday. I had a "mass" in my lower right side that was found during all of the sleeve testing and I also had them remove my gall bladder. So my surgery was a bit more complicated and, man oh man, did they ever knock me out. I have 4 laproscopic incisions plus a 5 inch where they had to take the gall bladder out. It was so packed with stones they could not get it out the little holes. I was put under at noon and it was about 11 pm before I knew where I was and who I was.

So even as of today I'm a little loopy.

Two things I wish I'd have done: Bought an oversized bra. I can't put mine on, too tight and right at the tender area. Since I want to walk outside, it bothers me to just be flopping along. Secondly, I shouldn't have taken 90% of what I took and I didn't take much at all compared to some. I never even hardly opened the bag.

Probably a little TMI so if you don't want the gory details, don't read on.

Biggest point of the story is that if I had not had terrible post off sickness on Thursday it would not have been a horrible thing. But let me tell you, about the 5th time I had my head over a can (I was dry heaving so hard they got me larger bucket type item so I wouldn't 'spray' -- kind of a power wash type thing. :rolleyes: I was starting to wonder if I'd lost my mind in thinking this was a tool to help improve my life. It may surprise you but power dry heaving can shake your resolve.

The doc said a lot of it was due to my surgery being much longer than a typical sleeve so don't let it

bother you. I think its much easier when just being sleeved.

Aside from the nausea issue, my throat was very sore. My voice is still working on coming back. But that, along with the incision pain, are minimal compared to heaving up every drop I was trying to take in. So if the pain of the surgery is holding you back in any way, don't worry about it much. They stopped my pain med Thursday morning and I've taken none since. And each day I can tell it's getting much milder.

I also have 2 drains. One small I removed today and one large the doctor will removed next Thursday.

So I have cleaned myself, re-bandaged, removed a drain. My next step is to give myself a shot. If I can do that, I'm over the hump and it will just be a matter of healing. I feel like such a big girl!

Oh, and he said was liver was great.

TijuanaPlication · April 30, 2011

Congrats on your surgery. I'm sorry you're having a tough recovery but hopefully you'll have great success soon. It's good you're sounding upbeat though.

BTW you're brave giving yourself shots, my DH injected my anti-coagulants for me as I'm too wimpy!

dlflightgirl · April 30, 2011

I used bandages to hold up my girls since I couldnt were a bra the first week. My husband had to help but it worked like a charm. Good luck

ursieursie · May 2, 2011

Glad to see ur back Sorry u had to go through all of that, but Im glad ur on the other side now. Take care, feel better, and a speedy recovery.

So I was sleeved Wednesday. I had a "mass" in my lower right side that was found during all of the sleeve testing and I also had them remove my gall bladder. So my surgery was a bit more complicated and, man oh man, did they ever knock me out. I have 4 laproscopic incisions plus a 5 inch where they had to take the gall bladder out. It was so packed with stones they could not get it out the little holes. I was put under at noon and it was about 11 pm before I knew where I was and who I was.

So even as of today I'm a little loopy.

Two things I wish I'd have done: Bought an oversized bra. I can't put mine on, too tight and right at the tender area. Since I want to walk outside, it bothers me to just be flopping along. Secondly, I shouldn't have taken 90% of what I took and I didn't take much at all compared to some. I never even hardly opened the bag.

Probably a little TMI so if you don't want the gory details, don't read on.

Biggest point of the story is that if I had not had terrible post off sickness on Thursday it would not have been a horrible thing. But let me tell you, about the 5th time I had my head over a can (I was dry heaving so hard they got me larger bucket type item so I wouldn't 'spray' -- kind of a power wash type thing. I was starting to wonder if I'd lost my mind in thinking this was a tool to help improve my life. It may surprise you but power dry heaving can shake your resolve.

The doc said a lot of it was due to my surgery being much longer than a typical sleeve so don't let it

bother you. I think its much easier when just being sleeved.

Aside from the nausea issue, my throat was very sore. My voice is still working on coming back. But that, along with the incision pain, are minimal compared to heaving up every drop I was trying to take in. So if the pain of the surgery is holding you back in any way, don't worry about it much. They stopped my pain med Thursday morning and I've taken none since. And each day I can tell it's getting much milder.

I also have 2 drains. One small I removed today and one large the doctor will removed next Thursday.

So I have cleaned myself, re-bandaged, removed a drain. My next step is to give myself a shot. If I can do that, I'm over the hump and it will just be a matter of healing. I feel like such a big girl!

Oh, and he said was liver was great.