One Week Ago

At 6:00 am one week ago today, I had my vertical sleeve gastrectomy.  I woke up at 7:30 this morning and my first thought when I looked at the clock and saw the time was that one week ago at that moment I was probably begging for pain medicine.  My first memory after surgery was waking up in recovery all tensed up, my back arched off the bed, I was wincing in pain and begging for pain medicine.  That seems like so long ago now.  So much has changed in just one short week.  I'm still dealing with some pain in the large surgical site on the left side of my abdomen and my energy, well there isn't much of it.  I have just completed week one of my three week liquid postop diet.  With so little nutrition and calories no wonder I have a lack of energy.  Overall though, I feel like I am on my way to making a full recovery.  My attitude remains amazing.  A lot of people go through a depression durging the early stages and I have yet to.  Not that I won't, but I haven't yet and I am grateful for that.  Right now, I am just so excited for what the future holds for me.  I am so ready though to be done with this liquid diet!!!  Unfortunately, I still have 2 more weeks of it.  I say unfortunately, but really, it is for my benefit.  Dr. Nicholson said he has a zero leak record when people followed the three week postop liquid diet.  That's comforting to know because as much as I'd like to bend the rules and eat something soft, I won't.  A leak is very serious and people go though a lot when they have one.  A bite or two of mushies before physician recommended just isn't worth it.  And hey, another positive of being on liquids is my caloric intake is very low so that's better for weight loss, right?

I hope everyone is doing well in their journey.

~Amy