Mookie is home

michelle

Whoooohooooooo, you made it through and you are now an official member of the wrapped club.........you are in great company. As for me I remain a cheer leader.

I am glad to hear you are home and that all went well. Do get into those jammies and spend some time just resting and letting your body heal.

I wish you a blessed holiday and again I am so glad to see you posting your success.

Gentle Hugs,

Kitt

Yay Michelle! Take it easy and stay on top of the pain meds. Looking forward to reading about your recovery. Happy a good and relaxed Christmas!

Welcome to the "Wrapped Club" and have a Merry Christmas! Take it easy and get some rest.

Take care,
Bill

well i can hardly eat half egg is this normal had bad episode this morning i can only manage a few sips tea ,then i took my pain meds big mistake i had more tea with the tablets and it all came up in my mouth gross . just got comfortable again but i could not breath i was scared . about how much are you eating is it about a few teaspoons at any one time are you hungry as i am not at all .

thanks i am having the right amount now just had some soup had a little walk around house can cough ok and stomach not as sore . do get a little discomfort in sholder after eating but not much . not had much pain meds today will make sure i do before bed

this is my 3rd day joy you did well with the yogurt . does any one have constant tighting and ach where the wrap would be
mine is aching and feel like it would be relived by a burp so uncomfortable it even wakes me up at night , bed time for me night night all

Hi Mookie and Joy,

Glad to hear you're both on the road to recovery. Try to be patient in the beginning...it'll take some time for you to be comfortable and eating normally again. Patience is the key to a manageable recovery. You can't rush things, and it's helpful if you can accept the process without a fight.

Personally, I couldn't take pills--even though my surgeon seemed to think I should. I don't know if it was in my head or not--actually, I still get pills stuck, so I take liquid calcium, flaxseed oil in a bottle, and crush my vitamin C tablets. If your pills are getting stuck, you're not alone. My surgeon said that eventually I'd be able to take large pills again, but I doubt it. We'll see.

As far as eating goes, the first five days (until I saw my surgeon) I ate soft foods. It's normal not to be able to eat much. You'll feel stuffed after just a couple tablespoons. My surgeon told me that it's because of the swelling of the wrap and stomach. It gives the sensation of fullness.

Don't be surprised if your wrap and swallowing become more difficult before they get better. An acquaintance who'd been wrapped a couple years before me, said that her fourth day post surgery was particularly difficult. I think I had problems about that time as well. One thing that happened (that worried me at the time) was that for a few days in the first week I was making a tremendous amount of saliva--and with my swallowing problems, I didn't want to swallow it. I just kept spitting it out. I thought it was something wrong, but discovered that it has happened to others. If you get that problem, don't worry. It'll pass.

Joy, your surgeon has a very restrictive eating regimen compared to mine. Once he checked me out at Day 5, he turned me loose to use my own judgement--eating anything that could be chewed to a liquid. I still eat very slowly and chew very carefully. Even at 10 months post-op, I can get things stuck/irritated if I eat too fast or swallow things that aren't chewed.

I know that some complain about the changes caused by the surgery, but for me any little inconveniences that the surgery created for my GI tract are well worth it for the improvements in my eating, sleeping, and most of all, lung function.

Try not to worry about the recovery process. It is just something we all have/had to make it through. Try to take it a day at a time, and go with the flow. Don't panic when you have a little setback--we've all been there. This too will pass!

We're all here for you, so don't hesitate to ask away if you have questions or worries.
Happy healing!
Denise

Hi Mookie,
Try to walk as much as possible. At least for me, my shoulder pain had a direct releationship to how much I walked...the more I walked, the less shoulder pain.
I found that sleeping on an incline after surgery took pressure off the wrap.
Good luck finding a comfortable position!
Take care,
Denise

Maybe...
I've noticed when my gas pressure is high I feel a heavy feeling on my chest.
I wish this gas would hurry up a get over with. I'm going to be so embarressed if I have a release in front of my students next week... you know how seven year olds are! :O
I've never had gas so bad in my life. :<

Joy

Oh, Great!


I'm going to be running my students out of the classroom!



I wonder if some probiotics will help?



I'm going to have to explain to them why I'm doing this so I won't upset the class when it happens.



Joy

day 7 well i thought same as you guys about the food . but no doctor sent a dietician to see me with the diet do and donts and all what im eating is on it every thing for nissen fundo it is soft cheese lol

cant eat much though going to get weighed fri on my wi fit as i will be able to monitor it as the dietian said she does not want me to lose weight to quick and she given me a tip on what to do if i am

slept better last night though