Post surgery finally

[tracy6914 13]

Surgery was Wednesday about 12:45 pm. That nite at 10 pm I was up walking and sat in a chair. Thursday I walked off and on slept a lot pain was pretty bad but mostly sore. Friday had to go drink contrast milky stuff worse thing so far ! Sat in X-ray from 8:30 am til 2 pm with very little movement. Back to X-ray at 7 pm. Then over nite was horrible I was sick vomiting which is not what your dr wants to say the least. Saturday has been a lot better. Still off to X-ray every 8 hrs but it's moving just very slowly. I did get ice chips thou best ice chips ever !! So now I still have no clue when I'll get to go home. But I'm feeling better by the hour. Dr ordered me a shot of Toradol which has helped tremendously. Still have my pain pump but haven't needed it today at all. I'm a work in progress and I'm excited !!

[Cupcake 801]

Congrats I'm glad that you are feeling better welcome to the losers bench, wishing you a speedy recovery, keep us posted.

[mentalistfan 189]

Why are you going to x-ray every eight hours?

[tracy6914 13]

To see if the contrast I drank is moving thru my colon ,intestines.

[BeagleLover 1,020]

I am continually in awe of the courage of all who go through this process.

[dsdesigna 143]

Curious how each surgeon does things differently. I didn't have to do any of that, not even once, even though I was told that I would. Perhaps they did it when I was still drugged with anesthesia and I just don't remember it. There is a huge chunk of time that I was apparently communicating with people but I just don't remember.

Glad you are doing ok. I am 12 days post op and although it does get better, it's still an uphill climb.

[tracy6914 13]

I'm still in the hospital because my digestion has been very slow. After drinking the stuff for X-ray I still had a lot in my stomach 24 hrs later and vomited a couple times. Since about 1 pm yesterday I've drank 45 ounces if Water and 6 ounces of coffee. Hoping to go home today I'm ready.

[iammomof3 38]

I just got home Saturday. I didn't think I would need the Percocet so I waited too long and it was difficult to get my pain under control. Feeling stronger every day! The contrast for the swallow test was disgusting! Best of luck for a speedy recovery.

[Postop 409]

Sorry to hear how rough it's been. I remember the contrast and having the test. It was kind of gross.

Hope you're feeling better soon.

[tracy6914 13]

I'm home now and doing good. My incision around my belly button had to be reopened and has to be packed twice a day. So this is the only thing slowing my recovery. I had an umbilical hernia repair so the incision was larger than normal. My weight is why I had it. So I'm drinking great had vanilla Protein in coffee this morning it was great. Hope everyone else is doing good.

[iammomof3 38]

So glad to hear you are home! You will feel stronger every day.