Here I Go....again

[wdrake_98 22]

So today is the day for my band to sleeve conversion. In pre op and getting all poked and questioned.

117/90 is my blood pressure. Guess I'm kinda nervous.

Should be done in a few hours. I hope I'll be able to get back on and post updates after I get out of recovery.

[Carly 56]

Best wishes to you. Hopefully it will go smoothly and you will be back recovering in no time at all.

[ShouldBlittler 89]

How did it go?

[wdrake_98 22]

Surgery went very well.

The heated conversations with my disapproving husband surely made things much more stressful then they needed to be. However I know he loves me deeply and was just very concerned about me getting though the surgery.

I arrived on time to the hospital and went straight to pre op. The hospital staff was very good. I was ready promptly for my 8 am surgery.

Dr. was a few minutes late, but showed up and was ready to go.

I used the restroom so I wouldn't have to get a catheter. Once back in bed, I was pushed to the operating room, moved over to the surgery bed, told to breath into this mask....next thing I know I'm waking up.

Nurses were very concerned about my pain level. I got a morpheme control and used it quite liberally lol.

But eventually the morpheme became too much. I couldn't keep my eyes open. The nurses kept coming in asking me if I wanted to walk. I wanted to, but I just couldn't even keep my eyes open. I stopped using the morpheme and my dr. eventually approved a different pain medicine, that had to be injected directly. The injections were painful, but I didn't feel completely sleepy.

Hubby arrived around 1 to check in on me and left shortly after, as I was still high from all the morpheme and was sleep.

Slept and walked until I was released the next day.

Coming home has been nice. Hubby's been annoying supportive. Even wrote out an hourly schedule for everything I'm suppose to do. Eat, walk, meds. Gotta love it.

Two days sine the surgery and I'm feeling good. Trying to figure out my stomach pains. What's hungry vs. gas vs. fullness.

This decision has been personal, and only 3 family members know. I'm still moving very slowly around the house and worry about returning to work in Monday without giving my secret away.

[wdrake_98 22]

i had a band to sleeve conversion, so I think I have an extra incision that sleeves only won't have. It's about 2 inches and is the source of most of my pain. Makes using my ab muscles difficult.

I started eating full liquids on yesterday, having grits, and a Popsicle. The grits really had me full.

The grits kept me full most the night for the first time since the surgery. I woke about 5 am from hunger and again at 6:30, as I tried eating a yogurt instead of the grits. Tonight ill def have the grits to try a get thought the night.

I am scheduled to go into work tomorrow but will be calling in sick, as I need one for day to get back into the swing of things

So far I'm down to 212 from 221 since the surgery. Guess its normal, for the recovery process. I look forward to getting to mush foods to increase my calorie intake a bit.