Day of Surgery

My surgery date was July 11, 2007. My mom and I decided to go down the night before and spend the night. Good thing we did beause the clinic called us at 7:45am asking us to come in an hour earlier. That's fine. The sooner the better. Instead of being at the clinic at 12:30, I had to check in at 11:30. I was there and got all my paperwork processed and then at 1:30 they took me back to surgery. I was in my room a little before 5pm.

I settled in pretty well. I was instructed that I would have to get up and walk once every four hours. I ended up having to use the restroom once a hour so whenever I got up to go to the bathroom, I walked.

The pain level was fine. I didn't ask for any pain meds at all. About 9:00pm my mom and the nurse talked me into getting my morphine. They both knew I was getting tired and the muscles were aching really bad in my stomach area. At 10pm I got up to use the bathroom and to do my walk. I seemed to be belching quite a bit and we figured it was from the gas that is used when doing a laparoscopy. I no sooner got back to my room and I had the dry heaves. That is not good because that can cause the band to slip. Mom went and got the nurse and the nurse came running to make sure I was ok. She gave me some meds to help with the nausea.

It didn't take long for me to settle down after that and start to sleep but then the IV bags started to kick in. I was up every 15 minutes going to the bathroom. Just remember that if you decide to have WLS.

The doctor came to see me the next morning at 7:30am and he said I was good to go home after I had my xrays. It wasn't a half hour later and I had my x-rays and then I was discharged from the hospital. I was home by 11:30/12:00pm.