SO, loodie's hubby - post here! let us know how everything went. we're praying and hoping and waiting - as patiently as we can [which isn't VERY, if ya know what i mean!!!!!]

Hi
I posted on the threat Linda started
blessings
Karel

Good Morning
I called Lina before going to the hospital. Still doing really well. They told she is useing a lot less pain medicine than most. She said "But I slept really well?" She went for a walk at six and asked for more chicken broth. THey gave her 8 oz. of it. Said it was getting a little cold. Well See you later. Have a wonderful day. It is a beautiful day here, amazing sunrise, birds chirping (not all is well the cat threw up) but still a great day
Karel

Congrats on a successful surgery, Loodie. Take it easy, walk a lot and let us know how it's going as soon as you can. Thanks for posting for her Karel!

Chickadee

Great news. So glad she's comfortable and feeling on top of things!

karel - you might be in line for BEST HUSBAND award! thanks so much for keeping us all updated. so glad that linda's up and around, and drinking...

give her hugs from us all, ok???

Thank you all for sending your get well wishes. I was released at 7 this morning by my surgeon, but the RN (had't seen her before) thought I needed to be released by my internal med guy also before I could leave. After waiting until 10 a.m. the RN finally had him paged & he said there was no reason to wait for him, so we left with the new prescriptions-Stopped on the way home to have them filled & am good to go.

Surgery did go well on Wednesday (the surgeon said). They had planned to put me in intensive care overnight with a mask, but said that everything was looking so well & the oxygen levels were good that they were just going to take me to a regular room instead. My daughter & hubby were both waiting for me. Other than that I don't remember much of surgery day. I did have some jello & chicken broth & walked.

Sleeping Wed. nite was a bit of a challenge, as we weren't able to get the reading light shut off at the head of the bed, so the RN & CNA draped blankets over the top of the bed rails to help some. It was a little like sleeping in a canopy bed. The next morning, they discovered that the problem was the remote-not the right one, so we couldn't shut the lights off.

Thursday, I woke up at 5 a.m., had breakfast & sat in a chair for 1 1/2 hrs. When the doc came in, he wondered why I hadn't used much of the pain killer & I said because I don't have pain. He said that was good news & advanced to the full liquid diet, so I had a scrambled egg for breakfast with applesauce, lunch was cream of wheat & cottage cheese & dinner was cottage cheese & applesauce with 4 protidiet drinks in between. I have yet to feel any nausia, but I'm sure that at some point it will come. I walked 250, then 300, then 350 feet on Thursday and about 400 twice today, while I was waiting to be realeased.

All in all, I think I am doing pretty good. I have a problem with always being tired though, so I think I'll spend the next few days just sleeping. When I got home today, I had a scrambled egg & cottage cheese then a vanilla shake with 50 grams of protein. I still have 15 grams to get in today so think Nectar lemon tea may be in order tonight.

I woke up this a.m. at 7 a.m. feeling somewhat nauseated. Decided to get out of bed for awhile & in the process rolled over on my right side, which has the incision that bothers me the most--so now I also have some pain. Got out of bed another way, went to the bathroom & took some pain med & went back to sleep until 9:30. I still had somewhat of an upset tummy, so made cream of wheat & had that for breakfast (2 oz.).

I took my binder off for awhile & that felt a little better--maybe it was too tight. I am just finishing my first protein supplement for the day (Chocolate Mint) and will take a shower. Maybe that will help--If not Herbal tea is my next choice. At least I'm not throwing up. I am hoping that this gets better. Guess I got spoiled, not having any problems in the last few days.

loodie honey - be careful with things like cream of wheat. it's the carbs. i suspect that you're having dumping, which is the result of too many carbs. try to keep your carb portion below 15 grams and you should start feeling better.

Good advice jiffy.

Hope you feel better soon Loodie!