Holy cow, I did it! They took out most of my stomach!
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, 11-17-2013 at 12:05 AM (1404 Views)
Hey guys, I am on day 6 back from surgery and I can't believe I let someone remove 85% of my stomach.. lol.. Anyways, everything went well, I was very very very very very sore.
I know it's surgery and you are supposed to be sore, but I think I underestimated how much pain there was going to be. Even the morphine was not doing too much the first day.. although I don't want to think what it would have been like without it!
The gas pain was probably the worst of it, then second to that was the nausea. I really can't stand nausea or vomiting. I will do almost anything to avoid it, but truly both pain and nausea are one of the worst things. It mostly went away by day 3 and I was feeling a lot better. By day 5 I was rocking and rolling.
Apparently, I am not having any problems getting my liquids down. For the first 2 days in the hospital it was ridiculous, like 1 or 2 oz of liquid every hour if I was lucky or every other hour. Today and yesterday I managed to get back more than 64oz of liquid in a day and get 50-80g protein in as well. I am just on full liquids so I am still trying to be careful, but everything is going great and I am not getting nausea.. so I am HAPPY.
I am a little nervous cause I noticed I am kind of "craving" things again. It is a small twitch in the back of my head, but it is there. I know this is head hunger, but all the same I will be happy to be back on solid foods again. Should be able to eat solids again by nov 25th. So 2 weeks after surgery, 8 more days to go!
Real quick stats:
Highest Weight: 347
Start Pre-op Diet: 318
Day of Surgery: 300
Current weight: 291 - 9 pounds in 5 days
Looking forward to loosing the rest. I am working on a video log, have a couple shot already and need to upload them to YouTube. Will post something here as soon as I have it together.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!
-Ryan.