So i got another date 2 weeks later on the 5th May , however since i started the diet early, and there may potentially be a drop out in Early April, i may be able to get in on that. If not then i did 6 weeks low carb diet stuff and just lost more weight before surgery :D
I need to now drop more weight to get into a dress for the wedding, as the ones i ordered online turned up and were MASSIVE in size, like i can fit another person in them. Who ever thought somebody with 120cm+ waist could accidenrly buy to big ?
Anyway the weekend was super busy. On Saturday drove a couple hours to drop off my old LCD TV to my brother (he still had a CRT!). Caught up with my son that i had adopted out (it was open adoption but we hadnt seen each other in 8 years). and we all went over to my other sons place, who now has a baby, and made bad jokes :D
Sunday i spent 2 hours moving wood for my bestie Richelle. I needed more exercise, so this was good! Then went to the dump to empty a trailer load of stuff.
Monday i got a call from the Doctor wanting to put a scope down my throat before the surgery because i had a tummy pain and it may have been an ulcer .... they asked if i had insurance (so im guessing its an extra cost he doesnt want to do)
Stick with that 5th May date ... you really really don't want to go to the wedding 2-3 weeks post-op.
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An ulcer in the remaining stomach or near the staple line could be a problem but I can't see the problem if it is well away. At least you won't have to purge the system like when they do an endoscopy.
I hope you haven't thrown out any of your old small size clothes, you'll grow back into them. :)
How are you finding the pre-op diet? I actually quite enjoyed mine.
If you are self funding (I was) then you want to minimise the hospital stay. I was in two nights and it cost nearly half the total cost of the op. I had my op first thing in the morning and I was awake in the early afternoon ... you will be up and about pretty much straight away trundling yourself to the toilet as needed with your IV drip stand trailing along behind. You'll be on fluids and antibiotics. The staff will be at you to start consuming fluids orally. I didn't have much trouble with that, it is something like 30ml every hour but some people do. You won't actually get any significant sleep that night. You'll start the proton pump inhibitors next morning and the'll start introducing mushy foods pretty much from breakfast. You need to practice on these. Dilute them with water if needed. The kitchen at the private hospital where I was was particularly bad serving up a lot of inappropriate food so I had to show my diet sheet to the nurses and get them to scrounge up things I could drink. You probably won't be able to manage a lot of things full strength but diluting them with iced water will help a lot. You should be able to get some sleep that night and the next morning you will be taking the food tolerance test which is some amount of food consumed in a fixed time period (I cant remember the quantities and time now). This is actually difficult and you need to walk around the ward to stimulate your stomach to pass the food (it appears humans have an inbuilt response to stomach wounds of closing off the stomach - nothing in, nothing out). Pass this and you can go home. You'll be tired and it will be all you can do to get to the car/taxi ... don't even think about driving yourself.
Im fine with either date, i usually heal fast after surgery because i get up, move about. 48 hours after a c-section i was push starting a car, and i left hospital and was fine within 24 hours of donating a kidney. I think i can do a wedding 2-3 weeks post-op, its mostly sitting down anyway.
DeleteHere in New Zealand most places use optifast - i have used this stuff, but majority of it taste like shit, and its horrid. What does taste decent gets old due to lack of nice flavours.
Using the celebrate and its really good!, im actually doing really well, and liking it!
As far as hospital stay goes, i go in friday, and stay a couple nights. My cost is static regardless of what happens, which is good because Doctor is inclined to do a decent job because its his costs if not :D
Once surgery is done i will be on clear liquids only for the first 2 weeks, or the celebrate shake (ill probably use those).
I don't get mushy food until 2-4 weeks :D
Oh the innocence :)
ReplyDeleteIt is unlikely to be clear fluids for 2 weeks. You'll be on things like "Up & Go", custards, yogurt and the like.
Make sure your dietitian tells you how to recognise dumping before your op, I wasn't told how to recognise it until about 6 weeks post-op and I really could have done with knowing earlier.
Nope, its clear fluids, or the celebrate sachets.
ReplyDeleteHey just wondering Stephen, did you have a full bypass or just the sleeve job? I know full bypass allows mush food in the first couple weeks thats all
ReplyDeleteNo, no bypass, just the sleeve, a 36 french which is just under 12mm diameter. I was on clear fluids for the first day and "nourishing fluids" by the second. We got served really thick pea soup and stewed fruit on the second day and we had to point the nurse at our diet guidelines (I say we because I was sharing a room with another chap who was the second operation of the day). The nurse found us some horrid chemical tasting liquid food that they stock in hospitals but at least we could drink it.
ReplyDeleteMercy Bariatrics did my op here is their first two weeks food guide for comparison: http://mercybariatrics.com.au/mbwp15/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/2-Week-Liquid-Diet-post-Sleeve-Gastrectomy-Surgery.pdf
Hmm that diet looks like what i will be on, all super thin fluids. I'm probably going to stick with those shakes for first 2 weeks at this point (its easy), and maybe coffee? :D
DeleteIf you like Miso it is a good thing in the fluids stage.
DeleteUnfortunately i hate Miso :D
DeleteNote that the initial couple of days of nourishing fluids was diluted to half strength so it was halfway to clear fluids. I suggest taking your diet handout into hospital with you in case you need to enforce being given the correct food. I went to a private hospital but the food service had been outsourced to the lowest bidder and it was not patient focused.
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