newbie feeling a little nervous

grandma,



Welcome to HealingWell !

Please take your time and post when you feel comfortable. You may lurk all you want too. :) I have found the support, validation and encouragement that I receive here, to be so helpful and healing. I hope and trust that will be your experience as a member of the HW family.

I have you in my thoughts and prayers as you go into surgery.

Blessings,

Kitt

Welcome grandma -
I'm a grandma too. If you're my age - old enough for medicare - plan on things taking a little longer to stop hurting. I wanted to say heal, but we do that pretty well. Complete recovery just takes a bit longer than for the kids in the group. But it's still worth it! At least it was to me. I'm just now 3 months past surgery and feeling pretty good finally. But then I had my stomach stuck up in my chest, so that added quite a bit. No reflux now! YAY!!

Just be careful not to eat more than a couple of teaspoons when you start eating and don't go past 1/4 cup for at least the first week. If you're hungry just eat again in an hour or two.

Hi Grandma...I'm a grandma too..

I'm having my nissen fundo tomorrow 01/26/2010. We will have to keep in touch with our progress. Good Luck :)

Day 2. I was able to go home yesterday and all I could do was sleep. Unfortunately, my roommate was not the quiet type and kept the nurses running. For those of you going to surgery, remember to wear pants with elastic. I have been able to eat little bites of milkshake, pudding and tons of water. Today, I even tried spagettios.. no issues so far. Although I really do miss my Diet Coke. The reason for my surgery was my cough. That was my only GERD symptom. I have noticed that I have coughed a few times today and I am hoping that is from the surgery and not a continuation of what I had before or all of this was for nothing.

Judy


Welcome to the Wrapped Club. I am not a bonafide member but one of the lead cheer leaders for each of you as you go through surgery. Whoooo hoooo, you made it through and now please do share and ask questions as you heal.



Joy is a wealth of info along with so many others.



Again, I am so happy that you are back home and on the mend.



Gentle hugs,



Kitt

OK, do I did not get your message until after the fact, but why should I stay away from tomato based products? I had to ask as I just had the spaghetios today?

Day 4-  no changes, although I am not getting the caffeine headaches as offen.  I thought I would always be addicted to my diet coke, guess I was wrong...  that is a good thing!  I was bored yesterday and the only thing on TV was the cooking shows..  talk about punishing!    Hubby has been great in helping me and around the house.  I have not been on any of the pain meds now for over 2 days- and that was mostly due to the headaches so that I could sleep and not due to any pain from the actual surgery...  Just waiting on the next level of foods that I can eat!

I am glad that I did not have this prior to the holidays, that would have been bad.. I feel for you there.... Day 7- FINALLY got to put on my jeans... I realize that is too much info for some, but a milestone for me today.. :) I have also tried real creamy mac and cheese and so far, so good. The other amazing thing that I have to report is that I have had NO diet coke for a week. I used to drank diet coke morning, noon and night. I cannot believe that I have gone this long without it. My doctor should be pleased!

Judy,
I just found your post. I had my wrap on Jan 18 and you are WAY ahead of me! I can't even think of putting on my jeans. The stomach area is still so uncomfortable. And you are on real food already. I must have the wrong doc. lol
So glad that you are doing so well! BTW, I too am a diet coke addict. I must say it's getting tough, but thanks to people like Joy we know that it will come in time.

Stacey

Judy,
We are at about the same place and it is so good to see you here.
I think Sunday will be difficult w/o food. I am still on liquids only. I expect to be put on soft food on Monday. I think my doc is SLOW on this. I also use a coffee cup. My husband started putting my soup in it after surgery and it seems like a great idea.
Did your doctor tell you what constitutes soft food? Is this just like mashed potatoes, oatmeal, cottage cheese? Or does it include more - like pastas? Would love to know!
I am so impressed with your progress! You are doing great.

Stacey

It had been over 2 weeks now.. I saw my surgeon Thursday and the scars are nearly invisible- that is amazing. I can now eat a little bit more but need to stay away from tough meats and soft breads, but the portions are still small.. from what I am reading I have been very lucky so far, but I am scared that my cough is still an issue as I am not sure which coughs are from the surgery itself or the cough that I was trying to get rid of.. I go back to the surgeon in a month and should know if the surgery was a COMPLETE success or not..

Hope that BOTH of your coughs clear up very soon! I had a chest x-ray at about day 10 & it showed a very underinflated left lung. I used that spirometer to strengthen my lungs for about 3 wks.
Wishing you the best!
Stacey