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September 2001 Wow, it's been a month already since my surgery! I can't believe how fast the time has flown. For those of you who are scheduled for consultations or surgery months away, believe me the time will go by very fast. So here I am one month out and I feel great! I went back to work full-time after 3 weeks and the only difference I notice right now is that I'm a little tired at the end of the work day. But that's it. I'm walking 1-2 miles every night at a good pace and I'm able to bend over fine now. I've finally graduated from sleeping in the recliner and am back in my bed. I can sleep on my side now and my backaches are gone. I've had no complications at all since the surgery. My incision is all closed up now and I use cocoa butter on it every day to help soften it while it heals. I'm on pureed food for 2 more days and then I'm onto the next stage – experimenting with solids. The pureed diet really has not been bad. I'll cook turkey or chicken, mix it with soup or baby food, throw in some grilled veggies and toss it all in the blender. But I am looking forward to eating regular food again. I've never thrown up nor ever even felt like it. Food goes down fine and I find I can eat about 3-4 ounces at a meal, spaced out over 30-45 minutes. I cannot take big bites though. I'm supposed to eat 6 times per day but I find most days I can only fit in 4-5 meals. By the way, a small can of V8 juice or CIB with milk is considered a meal. The only thing I'm still having a slight problem with is drinking. Regular-sized sips hurt going down. I still have to take very small sips, and trying to fit in 48-64 oz. of water while taking teeny sips PLUS stopping all drinking 15 minutes before and 1 hour after meals means right now it is impossible to get a lot of water in. I've found if I stop whatever I am doing and sip for 5 minutes straight I can get a lot more water in than taking sips, putting it down, working, taking another sip, putting it down, etc. Buying clothes... I don't want to buy too many outfits only to have them too big in 1-2 months. The work pants I bought just last month are already baggy. And this may sound strange, but right now I cannot even fathom buying clothes in regular sized stores. I'm so used to simply accepting that I'll never fit into the pretty and classy outfits they make for regular-sized people that I don't know when my mind will make the transition that this is going to be a reality for me. I've heard of WLS patients becoming thin and still constantly walking into the Misses-sized section. The first morning returning to work I got out a pair of older work pants and pulled them on. I hysterically laughed when they almost fell right back down :) I'll be saving them for the clothes swap at the next NWH support meeting, and I've saved the largest pair of pants to compare next year when most of the weight is off. Woo hoo! |
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