Recovering from surgery is...really sort of boring.

[rjbj]

This is a blessing. Although I will say that the war in Ukraine means I can use all that extra time to doom scroll Twitter.

 

[3momchaos]

Hope it keeps being boring! Lol

 

[suzannethemom]

Boring and uneventful is a good thing. Over on a different forum, I am reading about people on day 3, 4, 5 after surgery who are experiencing nausea, vomiting, and not being able to drink enough water. It certainly can be a challenge for some people. I just cross my fingers and hope I will be one of the lucky ones.

 

[rjbj]

I slept pretty well last night. I had umbilical hernia surgery about 2 years ago, right about at the time when SARS-Cov-2 was a tickle in the world's throat, and the post-op pain is comparable, though across a wider surface area. I had 4 incisions for the hernia, 7 for the RNY. I have one wound that was clearly a "bleeder"-- just a huge bruise emanating from it, like a damned oil slick. I can imagine that having nausea would be truly unwelcome, a misery magnifier, as it were. I haven't really tested the damned pouch yet. We got some coaching ahead of surgery that compared the pouch to a funnel and that it would back up if you drank too fast. I can take a whole mouthful of water, wait five minutes and then have another. There is extra gurgling, but nothing painful. Really surprised at how similar I feel to how I did before surgery.

 

[3momchaos]

I slept pretty well last night. I had umbilical hernia surgery about 2 years ago, right about at the time when SARS-Cov-2 was a tickle in the world's throat, and the post-op pain is comparable, though across a wider surface area. I had 4 incisions for the hernia, 7 for the RNY. I have one wound that was clearly a "bleeder"-- just a huge bruise emanating from it, like a damned oil slick. I can imagine that having nausea would be truly unwelcome, a misery magnifier, as it were. I haven't really tested the damned pouch yet. We got some coaching ahead of surgery that compared the pouch to a funnel and that it would back up if you drank too fast. I can take a whole mouthful of water, wait five minutes and then have another. There is extra gurgling, but nothing painful. Really surprised at how similar I feel to how I did before surgery.

I made an insane amount of abdominal sounds when I moved from phase to phase. I thought my intestines were learning whale song

 

[KarenWV]

I'm so glad you are coming along so well during your recovery. You definitely are one of the lucky ones. I can't imagine how much harder the process would have been feeling rotten on top of all the changes. Best wishes.