Yeah I know what your saying about Ens. Sood. I was thinking the other day about making an apt to see him to find what I should be doing but I just figured it would be a big waste of time. My Doc is Grove. He is super nice and did an awsome job on the surg. My incinsion looks great but I am just not sure that he has all the info for me now either. I think all they care about now is checking our blood work to see if everything looks normal?? What do you think? I have a question for you. How do you know if your healing slowly? Because Right now I am not taking any protein supplements (although I do want to start on one) but I feel like I have been doing pretty good. I don't feel tired at all and my incision sight feels really good. I am just wondering if there are signs I should be looking for?

P.S. Are you going to be going to the post-op meetings?

You sound like you're doing ok so far, Renee. If you were healing slowly, you would notice things like being tired alot, muscle aches, maybe excessive thirst. Other things wron with you would also take much, much longer to heal, like acne, scrapes, cuts, bruises. You would also feel generally crappy and run down. If your incision site feels good, I wouldn't worry at all. Are you not having muscle soreness in your abs at all? And definitely go see a doctor if you start running a fever for absolutely no reason. And yes, as far as the surgeons go, they pretty much just want to know if we're eating foods good for us and how we are tolerating those foods. The blood work is an essential tool for them, because it will tattle on us in a heart beat, lol. If you're having a protein deficiency, your BUN and creatinine will be low. If you're not taking your multivitamin, or just not absorbing it well, it will show also. I plan on being at the post-op meeting, as long as something doesn't come up.

Angie

renee: sounds like you and angie really need to hook up!!!! more later...

Yes I do think we should hook up. I like being able to come to this web site and get so much helpful info but it's also nice being so close to ther women you have recently had this surgery. So Angie I will be looking for you at the meeting I am going to see if Amy wants to go with me also. Talk with ya later

Ok Renee!! Cool. Um, will we be wearing name tags or something? lol

Girl don't you worry I will track you down ( :

Haha, ok. See ya Tuesday night.