Just diagnosed with the congenital Long QT syndrome at 42! Thank goodness i was in the ER at the time, i woke up in icu to have them tell me i went into cardiac arrest twice and i wont be driving for...
Thanks Bill, i plan on using the mixer to make my mashed potatos today:) i also add some gravy and that makes it almost soupy. I had the strange Nausea again this morning, hopped into the hot shower...
i will keep a lookout for the pasta for sure! im doing ok with soft stuff , but im concerned over the dry heaving episodes i experienced and the damage they may have done to the wrap:( i hvae just...
hello friends of the wrap:) yesterday marked three weeks since surgery. i had a problem on wednesday tried some chinese food and it didnt go well. I had the dumping thing and then extremely...
healing well:) im two weeks post op yetsreday:) im eating softish foods still, soups and spaghettios, pudding, carnation breakfast shakes...looking forward to the omaha sirloin steak beef soup i have...
HI everyone, sorry to drop out for a while, last week was hardfor me! seems like i couldnt get my anxiety level down all week and weekend . My mom is here with me and its great, but to hear her moans...
thanks everyone:) day three at home, inscision sites starting to itch, I'm able to take my everyday a.m. meds, still on broth and liquid,I take a walk up the block once per day,sip on water to stay...
heard from my surgeon:) "You have a full wrap, a Nissen Fundoplication. You had a giant paraesophageal hernia, meaning that most of your stomach was up in your chest and the opening between the...
Friends, I am completely confused, my doctor did something with a dissolving mesh, on on both sides, so not a wrap? I wasnt able tp talk with him about it, because I was still passed out. I'm upset...
Elle Jay how are you doing?...
So my stomach wasn't pushing up on my diaphragm it was totally pushed THROUGH! I can feel the relief of that already:) just really sore at the 5 incision sites and where my stomach is down now in the...
Thanks Gunner and everyone reading:) I ate a few spoonfulls of broth and some ice chip water, gotten up a few times for bathroom. Not feeling the C02 yet in the shoulder , maybe when I become more...
4 hours of surgery, I've slept almost all day, I feel relief already that my stomach is back where it belongs, and not shoved up my diaphragm! Feeling groggy, hut wanted to post that I'm doing ok so...
Thinking of you and hope you are doing ok!!...
Sorry about your long flight experience!! yuk, and with the recent surgery, thats a long flight!! i only want to go for a 2 hour flight up to oregon from Cali:) I hope i am doing well enough to be...
thanks RobUK;) the time is drawing nearer and i shall follow the doctors orders on diet for sure, ive already sort of mastered the skill of not eating much and being very careful as to what kind of...
Puking on and off all day, NO BUENO! (come on pain pill, stay down and ease the pain!!) Surgery is this friday to invade my abdomen and i'll still feel awful for quite a while after.Oh the joy of...
a week from today i will be in surgery! i am feeling better about everything thanks to everyone here:) i also had some reiki sessions, and those calmed me a lot too, have one more next Wednesday...
Glad to hear you are doing good:) do you have a smart phone and headphones? you could download netflix and breeze through your hospital stay:) keep us posted, keeping you in my thoughts today!...
THINKING OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!...
it is good to know if the hernia is big they still can do it lap! im hoping i will have the same! my herina has been there for quite a while so im thinking its had lots of time to inch up and up @...
Also, what about flying? I am hoping to make it up to Oregon for the holidays. I haven't thought to ask the doc , but now I'm wondering if that is a good idea, anyone flown three to four weeks post...
Thanks for the info:) I'm just trying to ready myself for what is to come:) and throwing up is the only relief I get now,and have to deal with the pain after, just not sure how that works post...
Yes, I believe I will be doing a full one no talk of partial one. Keep your head up this week, I'm sure u will do fine. I'm a little freaked out that they want me to fill out a end of life contract...
Today I am T- minus 10 days until my para esophageal surgery! i have been struggling for so long, i am hoping to make it all the way through the week without an episode! So frustrating for me, my...
Yikes moving!!! Why don't these things have better timing?hope all goes well and surgery is a breeze compared to all the xtra you are having to contend with! I got home from pre-op and am so glad the...
Along with all the other things this hernia is depriving my body of:) wish me luck, I'm starting the count down!!!!! Oh to be out if this horrible terrible situation!...
I had my paraesophogeal scheduled back in august, caught a cold at pre-op, and the rescheduled me to Nov 29th. Wish I had this support group back then! I may have pushed harder to just have surgery...