recovery from colectomy

[Guest guest]

Well I'm home and recovering getting better every day. This was a very

hard surgery for me, Dr K said he removed approx. 5 feet of the colon,

and due to all the blood cells in the section of colon that was removed

in addition to all the fluids they gave me I ended up getting 6 units

of blood, but all that's behind me now and like I said everyday gets

better. I still dont have much of an appetite and can't eat much when

I do, which is fine with me as long as I get my protein :-)and

everything taste different, foods I usually could eat and enjoyed I

either dont like the taste right now or they gas me up where they

didn't before. This is suppose to be common after this surgery and I

was told to give it 4 weeks for everything to settle down and 6 weeks

before I do any lifting. So for those of you who were praying, thank

you and please continue, I seem to want to run a low grade temp and I

still get some pretty hard gas pain and low back pain. take care

everyone and hope to hear from you soon....Melody

[Guest guest]

Melody

I glad your on your way to recovery. Interesting that food taste have

changed when surgery was much further down the digestive tract. My

prayer to you is that each day you wake up you feel 10 times better

than you did the day before.

Hugs

Jo