Hi everyone
So I'm home now, as of Saturday evening, having been successfully sleeved on Thursday afternoon.
I got to the hospital at noon and was told I'd be going in for my op at 2.30pm but it was actually closer to 4.30pm when I finally walked in; apparently, my surgeon was doing a bypass first and there were "complications". I hope the poor patient in question is doing OK now.
The process itself seemed to go well and was much as AlphaEcho described his procedure - except, thankfully, minus the DVD! I came to in recovery at about 7.30 and was moved back to my room and then drifted in and out for the rest of the night. As I had feared, the anaesthetic and I were not BFs and I was horribly sick all night; I stayed on a drip and was given glucose and an anti-emetic into my arm.
I did manage to be "helped" into the loo (oh the indignity) but promptly fainted and then was sick, so that was fun. Friday was a complete write off - I just dozed, sipped water, threw up, dozed, tried to read, felt sick if food was mentioned in my book, threw up and so on. The staff tried me on tea, soup, yoghurt and juice and nothing stayed down; the physio kept popping her perky head around my door and then backing away when she saw me lying there clutching a cardboard vomit tray.
I did start to perk up at 7pm ish on Friday (so a good 24 hours post surgery) and managed a non fainting solo trip to the loo and a freshen up with some baby wipes; was genuinely shocked by how terrible I looked! On the plus side, I had almost no pain from my stomach (four incisions) other than when I coughed - a legacy of last week's cold.
I got a bit more sleep on Friday night and woke up feeling loads better; had a shower (yay) and got my dressings changed and even managed some squash. I finally did the physio and was discharged later that day. Slept brilliantly at home last night and have been chilling today.
And here we are: 16lbs down since the start of the pre-op diet on May 30th ...
How's everyone else?
Jo xx
