My Surgery Experience

[Tisa 52]

I had my surgery on July 28th two days ago so I just thought I'd share my experience. I went to nuhealth, a big hospital in east meadow, N.Y. I got sleeved by Dr venkatesh. I arrived at 6am and got wheeled in at about 8am. I don't remember going into the or very well I just remembered my arms not fitting because it was a very small table so they wheeled up some platforms for me to put them on then I was out. When I woke up it hurt really bad, but I couldn't tell the nurse because I was still under a little. When I finally did she gave me some painkillers. I remember seeing my family I said a few words to them then fell asleep. It hurt more because I sleep on my side and sleeping on my back gave me pain so I couldn't sleep well. When night came around they took me from recovery and brought me to a room on the 11th floor. The first day and a half was miserable because I was thirsty and my throat was dry and they keep waking me up to walk every two hours even at like 3am. Also the anastesia made me feel nauceous so I kept dry heaving which hurt my incisions/stomach. The next day I did the barium swallow around 11am it was rough to stand so long because I felt nauseous but I met a gastric bypass patient who felt the exact same way as me so that made me feel better lol. I had dinner that day a few bites of Jello, Italian ice, broth and tea. All of them had fake sugars in them which worries me but I guess its ok for a few months. After that night I was kind of rebellious and took off my heart rate monitor/ leg cuffs because they were annoying my soul. Today they took out my IV I'm feeling pretty good just sitting here waiting to get discharged. I had a high white blood count so they're checking to see if I still do. I'm having a little trouble with the two bites every 20 mins that my doc set for me. Mentally I just feel like I need to eat more I guess thats you call head hunger. I need to be strict with it tho I don't want any leaks. Ill probably get an app to help me with that. Thats basically my story.

[4everbeautiful 61]

Glad your doing better for discharge. Continue getting better!

[DarbiMolly 188]

Sounds about right. Surgery is hard no matter what kind. Sleeve is worse because of the gas pain. I'm a month out and I feel completely normal. I had insomnia for a while and that was not ideal but it passed. Just hang in there and do what the doctor orders!