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NikifromSeattle

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  1. Hi Hopeful33, I too was scared to death of having surgery as I had only had a csection before, only an epidural. I am a nurse and I have see way too many things, so I was petrified. First off, the surgery center is so clean, cleaner than any hospital here in the states that I have seen. They all work so well together, they all have their specific tasks mastered and they gave me complete confidence in their abilities. I was afraid of being intubated, they used a mask so it was no big deal at all. Just get yourself there, they will give you some anti-anxiety meds shortly before hand. Then when you go in for the procedure. It seemed like I had just laid down on the table and they asked me a question and before I could get the whole answer out I was definitely out. Shortly after the surgery, they came and got me up to walk around. Then I got dressed, walked the halls a some more and felt great! (Walking the halls will get your lungs to open up and prevent pneumonia). They let me go back to the hotel that night and home the next morning! Yeah, I was a little sore but not really uncomfortable for a few days. Only issue for me was going from a laying down position to sitting up. But if you just roll on your side and use your arm to lift your upper body instead of your stomache muscles you will do just fine. The port site was more sensitive for a couple of weeks but now I don't even feel it, just one month out. I am still afraid to lift anything heavy so I haven't tried lifting my daughter, 65 pounds or ride my horses yet. But that will be really soon! The following day I walked well over a mile or so shopping in San Diego. I can't tell you that yours will go as smoothly but have confidence in them, you are in excellent hands!
  2. Thank God I have not had any of this shoulder pain that I keep hearing about, I guess I am lucky that way! I have had a lot of gassy pains but just get up and move around a lot and it goes away. My incisions are all healing well and the only one that is still tender is the port site. Sometimes I can feel it kind of like pulling at the stitches so I just freeze and take it easy. Other than that doing really good! I too am liking the creamy soups! I have always hated tomato soup but I got brave and tried the Safeway version in their deli, Tomato Bisque soup and OMG!!! I love it! but it is higher in calories but I figured that since that was all I was having its okay this once. Hopefully the Campbells version tastes just as good. Gotta go finish work now. Did your daughter do okay without you? Mine was brave and only cried a little bit but she is 5 now, yours is much younger. Talk more later Niki
  3. Okay, I will stay away from the Jello and Pudding. I am determined to do this exactly how they told us so that I can lose as much as possible! Thanks guys!
  4. I too am sorry that this is happening to you. Remember you did this for you and so that your son will have a healthy mommy! I too have had issues about weight with my husband. He thinks I had my band to save our marriage, boy was he wrong. Since I met him 11 years ago I have gained and lost the same 50 pounds over and over again. I finally decided to have the band so that I would have a tool to help me keep it off or at least make it physically harder to put the weight back on. My challenge is to not self medicate with food when he is not being the husband that he should. This time it is for me. A year and a half ago I lost 60 pounds and looked beautiful, it took me over a year to do it with LA weight loss and boy was it miserable. When I lost the weight the last time, it did not change anything between us or help our marriage as he claimed it would. So over the last year I put it all back on, self medicating again. Before I went to Mexico just 2 weeks ago, he said to me that it was all me, pointing out body parts of mine that he did not like, this is the reason that our marriage was not what it should be. I called him on it and told him that when I lost all the weight the last time it didn't change a thing. His response to me was "When did you lose all that weight." He didn't even notice. So he thinks I had it done to save our marriage. Really, I did it for myself and my daughter. I want to be around for her! I do not want to end up with diabetes, I want to lower my cholesterol and be able to keep up with her. I want her to be proud of me when she brings her little friends over. I want to be there when she gets married and has a child of her own. Hang in there. You are absolutely right, anyone that has not had a significant weight problem for a long period of time has no idea what we have gone through. They obviously have never had to do a 3 week liquid diet before!!!!
  5. Hi Sammantha! Doing well I hope. So I have been doing the clear liquid stuff and added drinkable yogurt yesterday, yuk!!! So I can't wait until the morning so I am going to start the soup thing tonight. Hey, can we have pudding on our full liquid diet? I see that you have lost quite a bit. I am down 9 pounds from surgery, about 1 pound a day too. How did you get the ticker on your post?
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