Surgery was today!

[GratefulHeart 0]

The shoulder pain is from leftover gas that the surgeon used to "blow a balloon" in my body cavity so he could see to work better. That's a characteristic of all laparascopic surgeries, I believe. I had a similar thing happen when I was in my 20s for a different kind of surgery. It's dissipating some, though it's now moving around to other areas in my chest. But it doesn't hurt as bad. Just have to wait it out.

As far as the diet after the two weeks, every surgeon is different, and I suspect every patient is different depending on their particular situation. I'm on Protein shakes for three weeks, then soft foods. I can supplement with soft vegetables (nothing stringy or hard to digest). Have had a hard time drinking all the protein; I'm just not hungry and I get full much sooner than I used to. So I haven't had anything but the Protein shakes.

So far, so good!