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Posted 3/16/2011 2:03 AM (GMT 0)
Hi people, I am having my lap niessen fundo next friday, I have to say I have a mix of emotions, I am excited because I have high hopes that it will improve my life, which have been miserable for the last year, at the same time I am terrified, the good thing is that I have a lot of support from my boyfriend (who is moving with me while I will be on recovery to be able to take care of me) and my mother. However how much time have you guys spend out of work?, I am engineer, but I work 100% of my time in front of a computer and I also work remotely from my apartment, so I don't even have to drive or take the subway to go to work. And if you have advices for me, will be very appreciate it
Posted 3/16/2011 2:17 AM (GMT 0)
No advise. Just wanted to say my 60 year old brother who also has MAJOR heart and lung trouble just had this done last Thursday. Not sure the exact name but it was 180 degree one, not all the way around. His was so bad it kept cause aspiration pneumonia. It was a complete success.
Posted 3/16/2011 3:02 AM (GMT 0)
johnj it is great to know that your brother's went well, lets see what happen with me in a couple of days, I have great hopes with this surgery.
Posted 3/16/2011 8:58 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Laura,

Good luck with your surgery and don't worry it will be fine. I had my surgery 6 weeks ago and I'm still off work for 1 more week yet (I'm a teacher and so did not want to go back until I had given myself enough rest). My surgery has been a great success. I had a hiatus hernia repair and also a 360 wrap. Take a look at my own thread called 'nissen fundoplication' if you like because I have explained all my experience so far on there.
Posted 3/16/2011 2:23 PM (GMT 0)
hi spike1010, i think I read your threat yesterday, and believe me it gave me a lot insight about what I can expect from the surgery, today is Wednesday and I still have to put some things in order before my surgery, fortunately my mother is coming from Canada to be with me for a week after my surgery, she will be a great support
Posted 3/16/2011 2:31 PM (GMT 0)
laura,

Good luck and we will all be here thinking of you.  I know how scary it is facing surgery yet the hope that life will be better is alluring too.

You will read many success stories here as well as step by step recovery stories so sending you lots of warm hugs,

Kitt

Posted 3/16/2011 2:35 PM (GMT 0)
thank you so much skitt, finding this forum have been a blessing because the web is full of horror stories, with this forum i can have an idea of what to expect since the point of view of the patient, doctors know their stuff, but they haven't have the surgery, so that is why is important to know what other patients think
Posted 3/16/2011 6:46 PM (GMT 0)
I am in my 6th week of recovery at home. Like Laura, I am a teacher and need to be really well-rested in order to return to work, which I will do on Monday. (3/21) If I had a sit down job, I probably would have returned after 4 weeks. Good luck!
Peggy
Posted 3/16/2011 6:55 PM (GMT 0)
hi Peggy, yes being a teacher means you are running around with children, yo need to have a lot of energy for that, so was the surgery a success for you? was the recovery very challenging?
Posted 3/16/2011 9:23 PM (GMT 0)
I was out grocery shopping (not pushing the buggy or lifting) at 10 days and back at work (first grade teacher) at day 14.
I was tired, but it was do-able. I could of waited another week, but I had a student teacher coming in and a parapro.
Posted 3/17/2011 2:42 AM (GMT 0)
couchtater that is a great recovery, I hope it will be like that for me
Posted 3/17/2011 7:29 AM (GMT 0)
Like both Peggy and Laura I too am a teacher and I'm just over 6 weeks post op now. I'm going back next wednesday so that will be just over 7 weeks off for me.
Posted 3/17/2011 4:46 PM (GMT 0)
hey spike1010 7 weeks is great for recovery, tomorrow I will be having my surgery, my mother just came from Canada, and I can't wait to have it, I know the recovery will be tough, but I would love to be GERD free, or at least that between the medication and the surgery i can have a normal life again
Posted 3/17/2011 11:49 PM (GMT 0)
Make sure you have pillow to lay across your stomach for coughing spells. It will help a great deal with the painful ones.
Posted 3/17/2011 11:57 PM (GMT 0)
Good luck Laura! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow, and waiting to welcome you into our "Wrapped Club"!
Denise
Posted 3/18/2011 12:08 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Denise thank you so much for your support I have to be in the hospital at 6:30am so I am so excited to get to a life GERD free, I think I have to be positive because that will help my recovery. Thank you everybody for their support, i will update as soon as I can, i think it is important to document our recoveries so people that is considering this surgery can have a better idea.
Posted 3/18/2011 6:30 AM (GMT 0)
Good luck Laura, hope to hear your update soon and yes it is good to document our recoveries and this is what I have done all the way. Take care.
Posted 3/18/2011 9:16 AM (GMT 0)
Hi guys I am going to head to the hospital now, wish me luck.
Posted 3/18/2011 12:30 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Laura,

Good luck today!!

I am 2.5 weeks post op.... My surgery was done as a day case... I am back in work now since monday so I took 2 weeks off, although, i really only needed 1 week, walking long distances was tough after a week but now its 100%...

My experience with the surgery seems a lot different than others, for me it was quite easy I was on morphine based medication for 2 days post op and that was it, nothing since...

James

Posted 3/18/2011 1:08 PM (GMT 0)
Thinking of you Laura! Best wishes! Looking forward to hearing from you after surgery.
Denise
Posted 3/19/2011 6:48 PM (GMT 0)
hi guys, my surgery was yesterday, everything went fine, i am still in the hospital because doctor want to see if I tolerate the liquid diet before sent me home, but it is pretty sure that I will be sent home today, yesterday i was feeling pretty crappy, but today I am not on any pain medication and started to get liquid diet, today I am already walking aand all that, I have some pain in the left side and in the place where they did the wrap but it is not unbearable
Posted 3/19/2011 7:48 PM (GMT 0)
Yay, Laura!
You're now a full-fledged member of our yeah yeah yeah yeahWrapped Club! yeah yeah yeah It's good to hear you're walking...you should walk as much as you possibly can. If you take a walk around the hospital halls, or around your house every time you get up to go to the bathroom, it will help to get rid of the gas they pumped into your abdomen to open up the surgical field, so they could see what they were doing. Often people get shoulder pain from that, and you'll want to keep that at bay.

You'll be much more comfortable when they send you home, and you have more control over your environment.

Congratulations! You are on the other side...starting to heal and be free of all those GERD symptoms you suffered with. Be sure to stick around to ask questions as they come up!

Heal Well!
Denise
Posted 3/20/2011 2:36 AM (GMT 0)
well I just got to say, that I am at home right now, and you were truth Denise I already fill better in my apartment, however on thing worries me, today was my first day of eating after the surgery, and I was put in the hospital on liquid diet, and right after I came from the hospital, I had a very little bit of diarrhea, has anyone experienced this? rather than that, I still have pain in in my left and center side of my abdomen, I can burp. One thing is true I don't have any symptoms of GERD
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