When I first started this journey I kept fluctuating between 257 and 260 pounds. Then in preparation for the surgery and doing the liver shrinking diet, I walked in to surgery at 249 lbs. as of today I've lost 14.6 pounds. However going forward, I'm going to use the weight I was on my surgery date as a baseline because I want to know how much I'm losing BECAUSE of the VSG and not the liquid liver shrinking diet.
With that being said, my weight on the date of surgery was: 249.0 lbs
Since the day of my surgery I've lost 4.2 lbs.
My laparoscope incisions seem to be healing nicely. No infection that I can see and no pain. They are really starting to itch which is a good sign. My JP tube/drain is still filling up twice a day with excess fluid.
I don't think I've addressed my tubing. In my photo showing the lapriscopic incisions you can see the big white patch and underneath that is where my drainage tube goes into my belly and on the other end is a grenade looking like ball. Like this:
This basically acts like a "wick" using gravity and suction to drain out any fluid or blood clots that are collecting in my belly where my stomach was. It also helps the doctor check at a glance for internal bleeding and infection. The ball holds about 3 ounces of fluid. Since coming home from the hospital and emptying the fluid and measuring myself, I've had just about 2 ounces of fluid collect in it each morning and night. I also need to "strip" the tubing at each emptying.
The first time I did it, I evidently didn't have enough finger strength to pinch the line off on my own while stripping it. The result was I nearly fell to my knees in pain and it felt like someone had sucked all the air out of my body. I screamed out and my hubby came running. I spent most of the day yesterday in bed with a heating pad on my tummy. It was awful.
I drained last night but didn't strip and this morning my hubby pinched off the tube while I stripped (sounds so sexy huh?) and I had absolutely no pain. Yay!
I'm having a hard time getting all of my water in, I do sip, sip, sip but you tend to forget to drink 1 ounce of liquid every 15 minutes. So now I'm conditioning myself to sip whenever I hear a commercial on TV, or the radio, or if I'm listening to my iPod, I sip at the end of 3 songs. I'm not experiencing nausea, but I ran my finger over the back of my neck and I still have a nausea patch on. I do vaguely remember the nuse saying it would last for 3 days.
I am still experiencing gas. Not a lot of passing gas, but burping tremendous amounts. I'm not sure if that is related to the Sleeve or the repair of my hiatal hernia. Yes, I had two surgeries in one day, a hiatal hernia that was as large as a grapefruit and my stomach was jutting up through the opening into my chest cavity. My surgeon said I had a stomach the size of a football and this was one of the largest hernias he'd ever seen. The worst thing I've experienced is getting the hiccups. Omg it sucks when that happens.
Eating: I made my hubby dinner last night. Chicken soup with veggies and rice. It was nice to flavor it all and then I had some of the broth and it was really good, it didn't taste all blah out of the container.
During the day I drank maybe 24 ounces of water (which is bad) 4 ounces of Slim Fast protein drink (still a bit too think and sweet for me) and 1 container of yoplait lite yogurt (which took alllll day for me to get down) and a sugar free (SF) Popsicle.
Today my goal is to be better. I woke up dreaming I was eating cheetos. That's never happened to me Ever. I immediately got up and began drinking my protein. I've had 5 ounces of my Muscle Milk protein powder and two dime sized bites of yoghurt.
I'm hoping for a better fluid day today :-)
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