Tomorrow's my band-day!!!

[Healthy Grandma 0]

I'm banded! Everything went great. I even got to go home after one night since the hospital was short of beds and I was doing so well. The doctor came in Tuesday morning and asked if I felt good enough to be home and I sure was. Can't sleep very well in the hospital.

I didn't have a pull bar for getting out of bed, but I used the bed rail and the nurses hand. It didn't hurt very much after surgery but the next morning the port site hurt quite a bit. They were giving me morphine in the IV and I remembered that I had morphine a couple of years ago when I had a kidney stone and it didn't work for me. They switched to Toldol (sp?) and that worked great. They sent me home with a prescription for Vicodin.

I'm feeling great. It still hurts but not to bad except for getting in and out of bed.

Thanks for all your good wishes and words of encouragement. I love this site.

Healthy Grandma

[go_big_girl 2]

congrats and happy band-day!

[SueFromMichigan 1]

Glad to hear you are doing so well. You will have some soreness the next few days. And I, at least, have gas pains. But nothing unbearable. And it is so good to be home!

I plan to keep to the diet religiously and give my body a chance to heal.

I'm not looking forward to Memorial Day weekend. We always go to our family campground so I will have to pack campfire type foods for my husband and watch other people eat. :-(

[Lillie52 0]

Way to go HealthyGrandma. Glad to hear your home and doing well. I got home about 530 this afternoon myself! Just awoke from a little nap & feeling a little bit better.

Best wishes to you!

[Alex Brecher 10,515]

Way to go HealthyGrandma. Glad to hear your home and doing well. I got home about 530 this afternoon myself! Just awoke from a little nap & feeling a little bit better.

Best wishes to you!

Congratulations! Happy band day :-)

One thing that helped me with my recovery was NOT laying around in bed all day. If you're able, I'd highly suggest walking around as much as possible.

[Lillie52 0]

Congratulations! Happy band day :-)

One thing that helped me with my recovery was NOT laying around in bed all day. If you're able, I'd highly suggest walking around as much as possible.

I had quite a bit of nausea. Once that cleared I was up and about more. Not much trouble at all with gas pain. I feel fortunate about that.