I'm alive... and I'm sleeved!

Jun 29, 2009

I'm sorry I didn't post sooner. It was a rough week last week. I had my surgery on June 22 around 5 in the evening at Sinai Hospital in MD. Surgery was a sucess. My surgeon said the procedure was "boring"... meaning no problems. Meanwhile, I had to stay in the hospital an extra night because of a UTI (my first one ever) and SEVERE pain. I have never experienced anything like that before in my life. I felt like they weren't giving me "real" pain meds... just blanks. I'm not sure why my pain was so bad, but it didn't really get better until Friday.

I'm doing good so far here at home. My husband has been helping around the house, which has been good. My Mom took care of me like my own personal nurse when my husband was working last week. I'm so blessed to have them both.

I had cramping and pain when anything hit my stomach for til today, actually! As of this morning, I've been able to get everything down with no pain. (thank you God) I am getting in my protein shakes with no issues. No, they don't taste real great... but they are tolerable. I'm able to tolerate milk, which is good. When I'm not drinking a shake I've been sipping on Crystal light and Lipton diet green tea. I pureed some cream of chicken soup last night (with an added a scoup of tasteless protein powder). It was gooood! As long as its pureed enough, it's like a warm, chicken flavored protein shake that you can eat with a spoon!

My only real concern/issue at this point in the hunger! OMGoodness! I didn't realize that there was going to be this much hunger. I thought that the sleeve would take away most of the hormone that causes hunger. And I'm not talking "head hunger" people... I'm talking: My sleeve growls cause it's empty and screaming for food... and I want to eat a sandwich! LOL

Anyone else experience all this horrible hunger right after sleeve surgery??

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