3 days post op mini gastric bypass

November 9, 2006

I've been trying to read as many email as I can, but I've got about enough

energy to get a status report out on my surgery and recovery. I ended up

getting a mini bypass, and I think I'm going to love it. 50% of my omentum was

stuffed into my umbilical hernia...and I have a LOT of omentum..which added time

to the surgery. But I'm blessed I decided to have this surgery and thus the

hernia repair (which I probably wouldnt have done yet) since he said it was huge

and needed work asap. And the icing on the cake was that he threw that part of

the omentum away! Yipee. I had no idea what I was in store for with the Leak

Test (boy, they make it sound like such a cute little harmless thing) Swallowing

a cup of what tastes like liquid aspirin while standing on a tiny ledge in front

of the flouroscopy screen, praying not to wretch..I moved, so I had to drink

another cup. My eyes must have been bulging because he said OK OK stop! Dont

make her drink anymore, followed by a time

spent in the bathroom with diarrhea. I was overjoyed to be finished with it.

Dr Ungson and his staff, and just every single person my son and I delt with

treated us with the utmost kindness and concern. Surgery was a snap, really

(everything was a snap compared to the leak test) and my greatest pain at this

point is back and leg pain from the surgical table and from being in bed. I'm

sipping away at crystal light religiously. Dr U's nurse comes to the hotel

daily for my care...today I had a mild fever - 100.4 and was started on

antibiotics. I'm coughing green stuff so its resp and not wound anyway. Charlie

and I are having a ball...I couldnt be happier to have made the choice to have

this surgery, and to come to Mexico to have it. More later

Hugs,

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