by Me | Sep 22, 2018 | Post-Surgery
Another pretty comfortable night (in my own bed), with a few odd dreams (I’m guessing a carry over from the General Anesthetic/Drip) .
Still no pain to speak of…. I did take a precautionary couple of Panadol before bed because I didn’t know what to expect, but I think this was probably unnecessary.
One of the 5 (tiny) dressings “fell off” in my morning shower… Well OK… it didn’t actually fall off… but the dressing did fill with water, which I didn’t think I should leave so I gave it a little encouragement… I was amazed at how small, neat and clean the incision was … unlikely to leave any scarring at all (there go my bragging rights).
Popped up for a cuppa and read of the paper at my local cafe… dropped over to Mums for a chat… did a bit of shopping (and bought a new set of scales as my old ones mysteriously stopped working all of a sudden – (at east I am pretty sure I haven’t put on 22kg since Thursday) – pretty much my standard Saturday morning.
My new set of scales (just $29) have BMI, Body Hydration, Body Fat, Muscle Mass and Bone Mass readings (which I doubt I will trust at all), but are also Bluetooth enabled and connect with a cool App to measure and record readings – aweseome !!
I had a cup of protein water for “breakfast” and was feeling a little light headed mid morning so thought I should also have a chocolate Up and Go (19g Protein) – after all I have had next to nothing to eat since Wednesday night. For “dinner” I had a pumpkin cuppa soup (slowly drinking over 1/2hr or so). I am not hungry at all and only eating because I think that I should.
Apart from Thursday night I’ve not had any Diabetes medications and so far Blood sugar has been good (pretty constant 6-6.5s).
by Me | Sep 22, 2018 | Surgery
I have now had a chance to revisit all of my scheduled “Day of Surgery” Posts and these have all been updated to compare my expectations with what actually happened 🙂
by Me | Sep 21, 2018 | Post-Surgery
I woke pretty early (about 5:30 AM) after a surprisingly comfortable evening – despite a bit of prodding and poking by the nursing staff, and a couple of trips to the loo.
Again mostly no pain and just a little discomfort from my gassy stomach/intestine. I had been drinking small amounts water since the surgery (but had really only managed a small cups worth in the previous 18 or so hours).
I was wheeled down to Xray and asked to take a few mouthfuls of an Iodine solution while they took Xrays – to check that there were “no leaks”… Very interesting process (wish I took my phone to take a photo of my new stomach/bypass). I was asked/able to drink about a cups worth of the liquid – which surprised me a bit… but was cool to see the xrays show how quickly (just a matter of seconds) it passed through my stomach and into the intestine.
I was wheeled back to my room and soon the surgeon appeared for a chat… he was Very Happy, I as Very Happy (and still pain free), so the hospital was Very Happy to discharge me.
I was discharged at 10:00.. popped past the pharmacy to get some drugs (pain. anti-nausea, and anti reflux), and was picked up by my son and home by 12:00… less than 24hrs since my operation.
I was feeling great… had a few mouthfuls of Protein Water for “lunch” (passionfruit flavour – Yum)… checked and responded to all my emails and went to bed for an afternoon nap.
Woke after a couple of hours had a few more mouthfuls of protein water for dinner, watched the NRL semi final (Great game Billy Slater) and went to bed 🙂
by Me | Sep 21, 2018 | Post-Surgery
They discharged me from hospital this morning at 10:00 and I made it home before 12:00 – less than 24hrs after the operation Woo Hoo !!!
I had hoped to be out today… but didn’t really expect it… I thought I’d be in another night to get my blood sugar under control, but it is behaving nicely.
I am in almost no pain, just a little discomfort (feels like my stomach is a little “gassy”).
They’ve given me some drugs (which I had to pay for actually – $94) to keep me going…
- An anti-nausea drug,
- a drug to minimise Gastric Reflux (which is a common side effect of bariatric surgery) and
- some strong pain killers (Oxycodon IR – which I have heard mixed things about and am actually not the keen to try unless I have to)…
Feeling a little zonked, and tired but otherwise remarkably good. 🙂 Nothing quite lik your own bed 🙂
by Me | Sep 20, 2018 | Surgery
Today is finally the day of my operation
The First Day of the Rest of My (hopefully extended) Life !!!
What I expected
By now the surgery should all be complete and I will have been back in my room for a few hours.
I don’t need to worry about any distractions like “hospital food” as I expect to be nil by mouth for the whole time I am here… All Nutrition and hydration will be via a drip.
What Actually Happened
The local endocrinologist popped in early evening to check my blood sugar levels which were (to me) surprisingly going up – when I had expected them to be going down as I hadn’t been eating anything. However, this was apparently a result of the anti-nausea medication, which is know to have this effect… so all good…
All in all a pretty good day… everything went relatively smoothly (apart form the Scarred Liver issue – which I didn’t find out about until later anyway) and reasonably closely matched my expectations.
Pain was nowhere near as bad as I had anticipated and all hospital staff have been awesome (as expected).
I dozed off and on until around 2100 (I think)… messaged various people with status updates… couldn’t be bothered getting out the laptop because sitting up with everything attached was a bit awkward… and settled in for a nights sleep…
Another pretty comfortable night (in my own bed), with a few odd dreams (I’m guessing a carry over from the General Anesthetic/Drip) .