Surgery October 22
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BebeZed
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery! If you have a chance, say hi to the MBC gang for me (my name is Kathi and I had my DS surgery Oct 3).
Dr Campos is such a sweetheart
Seeing him every day was for me the bright spot of my day, although I found Yolanda entertaining and caring... she truly felt like family.
Dr Campos is such a sweetheart
Seeing him every day was for me the bright spot of my day, although I found Yolanda entertaining and caring... she truly felt like family.
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Best wishes for a speedy recovery! If you have a chance, say hi to the MBC gang for me (my name is Kathi and I had my DS surgery Oct 3).
Dr Campos is such a sweetheart
I'm laying here bored tonight. I was the 2nd of 2 surgeries. I don't know what the exact problems were with the 1st guy. I think it took 7-8 hours for him though. They kept pumping sleeping pills in me and acting surprised I wasn't sleeping through. Kinda hard to sleep all night AND all day no matter what. Now I'm paying for it.
Funny thing. I had dell asleep and woke up so much that when I finally awoke in recovery my first thought (for a good 20 minutes), was that I had fallen asleep wrong, which was causing a bit of stomach discomfort. After a while the pain became noticeable so I looked under the blanket....well, guess they finally got to me.lol
Hope everyone's doing alright.
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Another thing. Drs. Esquerra and Campos tried to sell me on the SADI. It wasn't a vehry strong sell though. I cut them short real quick and they forgot about it just as quickly. Instead, they moved on to common channel and allimentary channel length. We settled on 120common and I allimentary based on the innards length.
It too me half an hour to type this last message. I ripped my IV out being too active and just waiting for that to be replaced to go back to sleep. Talk to everyone soon.
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Sounds like you're doing just fine - glad to hear it! I giggled when you described waking up after surgery... to be honest, I barely remember anything about either pre-op or waking up... all I really remember is them getting me out of bed to walk for the first time. I ripped my IV out too... then they had to put it in my right hand and I spent the rest of the time trying not to dislodge that one too.
The doctors didn't try to sell me on anything - I was really upfront when I booked my surgery that I wouldn't even consider the SADI, and it was the one of the first things I said to Dr. Esquerra when I met him. Glad they didn't persist with you!
I can relate to being bored. I watched the same episodes of Top Gear and Graham Norton about three times each, watched VH1, and read a lot. My big outings outside my room were spent walking up and down, inspecting everything and translating signs. I did visit with one of the sleeve patients for awhile but she had her husband there and I didn't want to intrude.
Here's to an uneventful recovery!
The doctors didn't try to sell me on anything - I was really upfront when I booked my surgery that I wouldn't even consider the SADI, and it was the one of the first things I said to Dr. Esquerra when I met him. Glad they didn't persist with you!
I can relate to being bored. I watched the same episodes of Top Gear and Graham Norton about three times each, watched VH1, and read a lot. My big outings outside my room were spent walking up and down, inspecting everything and translating signs. I did visit with one of the sleeve patients for awhile but she had her husband there and I didn't want to intrude.
Here's to an uneventful recovery!
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Welcome to the dark side! Glad things went smoothly. Wishing you an easy recovery and hope all goes well on your long drive home!
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The reason they tried to sell me on the SADI was because of how small I am. I think they just were a bit worried at first that I would lose too much weight. But today Dr. Esquerra and Nina both came in to visit and Nina mentioned that maybe the doctor gave me a bigger sleeve. He said something like "No no, I did it correctly. He's shown he can handle everything properly."
I can't blame them really. Fransisco from hotel lucerna told me I was the smallest person he'd ever seen come through for surgery. And then in the morning when Ernesto picked everyone up for surgery a fellow surgery patient asked if I was there for a check up. It made me feel a bit shameful to say I was here for surgery. I know I'm getting looks from people. Yet they don't know what I weighed just a few months ago so its not their fault. Once I explain the phentermin.e, and that I've gained almost 25 pounds in the last 5 weeks, they understand.
Thanks for the well-wishes. Im in a lot of pain because how far my surgery was pushed back and I have chronic cluster headaches from a previous head injury. Once I can take my nsaids to get rid of them then I'll feel tons better. Funny when the surgical pain is nothing compared to a headache.
Also, I might be driving home but I have no set date to get home by. If it takes me a week or 2 to drive the 20 hours then so be it. Thanks for the worries though. You all are good people.
I haven't found the DVD player on the TV to play movies. I brought some of my favs because I read your post bebezed.
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You'll like it here. All the people have been professional yet extremely nice.
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Ouch! I had a horrid headache my 2nd night there and they finally gave me a pain pill for it. Cluster headaches are no joke and I'm sorry you are going through that AND the aftermath of the surgery. I hope they can give you something to help out...
Oh geez, I guess I didn't mention that my movies were all digital on my tablet. I was going to bring actual DVDs along with my laptop but thought better of it once I figured out that I would have to lug the laptop around after surgery while waiting in the airport. My apologies...
I hope that headache goes away soon! Feel better ...
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They've given me 2 of the headache pills you take sublingually but it hasn't done anything. Once I'm off the fasting diet then I'll crush up some aspirin and advil. That's the main reason I chose this surgery was because of my nsaid usage.
Darn on the DVDs. Oh well, I can't keep my concentration on a movie long enough anyway.
Welcome to the Dark Side! Now sip, walk, rest, rinse, repeat.
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Yeah the nurses keep telling me to walk. I finally got my headache under control so want to keep my activity level low. The headache is still at that stage where it'll come roaring back if I'm not careful.
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I hope you are done with the headaches and can be busy recovering.
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I think I'm an hour or 2 from them giving me a sleeping pill so I'm real hopeful the headaches will be over with when I wake up.
I just went through a bad gas attack. It seems my stomach doesn't like pure water. I felt like an idiot almost in tears because of gas lol.
