JUNE SURGERY BUDDIES

[sharonwg 110]

Hi Guys - so funny that you should mention swimming! I had my surgery on 1st June. I spoke with my surgeon this morning; I sent photo's of my incision sites and following discussion, he cleared me to swim. I went today and had a slower than usual swim but it felt good xx

[sharonwg 110]

By the way - my incisions are haled over. They are closed and there are no openings or scabs xx

[AmandaD. 35]

On 06/19/2023 at 12:15, sharonwg said:

By the way - my incisions are haled over. They are closed and there are no openings or scabs xx

That’s great! I’m so envious!! I had surgery on June 7th & I still have scabs and the liquid glue on all of my incisions unfortunately- most of my incisions are almost healed except for the one near my belly button, that one is giving me the most problems

[Carla Ogwin 91]

36 minutes ago, AmandaD. said:

Oh wow, that’s fast! I’m 12 days post op & my liquid bandage is still on all of my incisions & they’re not healed yet… that’s great for you!!

That is fast, I have no stitches whatsoever, I'm just bruised and those are going away as well. Hopefully it's not too much longerfor you.

[Carla Ogwin 91]

4 minutes ago, AmandaD. said:

That’s great! I’m so envious!! I had surgery on June 7th & I still have scabs and the liquid glue on all of my incisions unfortunately- most of my incisions are almost healed except for the one near my belly button, that one is giving me the most problems

Mines are almost in a circle but not a complete circle I had the sleeve and on my right side there's a linger bruise imma assume the stomach came out that area.

[CatLady0626 45]

06/19/2023 11:40 AM, AmandaD. said:

Has anyone’s Dr. told them how many weeks before they’re allowed to submerge incisions? 90+° here in FL & can’t wait to swim!

My program states 3 weeks or until incisions are completely healed. I had surgery June 2 and was concerned about when we go on vacation to the beach (which will be 4 weeks post op). They told me the incisions will likely be healed but that if I’m concerned I can send photos of the incisions through the online patient portal.

[TRClark23 41]

On 6/18/2023 at 9:51 AM, Cwoloschin said:

Try the strawberry banana! Taste like a milkshake 😋

I just opened my case of Fairlife chocolate Protein Shakes and wow are they great! It almost feels like I’m probably not supposed to have it, it’s so good! 😂

I’ll be on the lookout for strawberry banana! Virtually all of my local stores just have vanilla and chocolate. I thought I got lucky finding root beer float and cafe latte.

the cafe latte are great too, but I put them aside temporarily because they have caffeine and I’m trying to avoid it.

It was a pain to get myself off of Diet Coke. 😬

[TRClark23 41]

3 minutes ago, CatLady0626 said:

My program states 3 weeks or until incisions are completely healed. I had surgery June 2 and was concerned about when we go on vacation to the beach (which will be 4 weeks post op). They told me the incisions will likely be gone but that if I’m concerned I can send photos of the incisions through the online patient portal.

Thank you for that response! My surgery is Friday and we’re going to Florida in August before the kids start school and I was wondering about that too!

[sharonwg 110]

3 hours ago, AmandaD. said:

That’s great! I’m so envious!! I had surgery on June 7th & I still have scabs and the liquid glue on all of my incisions unfortunately- most of my incisions are almost healed except for the one near my belly button, that one is giving me the most problems

Hey Amanda - I am almost a week ahead of you with my surgery hence the current sate of my incisions - in a weeks time, you too may be enjoying the pool honey xx

[Maggie rose 9]

Everyone share some stuff your eating/experiementing with/ enjoying pleaseeeee

[renae97006 8]

Right now I was doing Jello and chicken broth but today I introduced pudding and Thai coconut Soup and boy was that soup so good. So far everything works. I’m entering my 2nd week so I’ll add back the Protein Shakes and hopefully try eggs this week.

8 hours ago, AmandaD. said:

Has anyone’s Dr. told them how many weeks before they’re allowed to submerge incisions? 90+° here in FL & can’t wait to swim!

[Carla Ogwin 91]

51 minutes ago, renae97006 said:

Right now I was doing Jello and chicken broth but today I introduced pudding and Thai coconut Soup and boy was that Soup so good. So far everything works. I’m entering my 2nd week so I’ll add back the Protein Shakes and hopefully try eggs this week.

I was feeling so weak that I started yesterday on egg drop soup and it made me feel wonderful no pain no nothing, Jello, pudding, , I ended up on ensure extreme Protein that was the only one that I could drink without the gas, Water diet juice so far so good

[Petkato 12]

Hello everyone !
Had my surgery yesterday. I am doing good. Except for gas pains. No other pain. So far so good. Gas is really bothersome though. I am doing a lot more walking today. It’s 4 am and I am up and walking. When will this gas pain be gone 🤔. I have been having only Water since yesterday. Today I plan to try some clear Protein . This was my first surgery. funny thing was I remember rolling into the operating room and then the next thing was in the recovery. I thought for a min the surgery was not done or something and I was reaching for my stomach to check 😂. After a while I asked nurse if it was done. She said Ofcourse honey 😅

[Carla Ogwin 91]

Amazingggghh, keep on walking to get that gas out your system

[Petkato 12]

Thank you so much Carla 🤞🙏🏻