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Gary S. 23 years, 5 months ago

Hon I just wanted to tell you how proud I am of you and how much prouder I am of you with each passing day..Not only have you shown me how determined you are to make this surgery happen but you have stayed with things and seen it thru..you have been my rock my light and my inspiration thru everything you have been thru and I want to let you know that I love you and will be forever proud of you and grateful that you were brought into my life..keep up the awesome work sweetie and know I will be here thru it all

Deanna P. 23 years, 5 months ago

Amy you have done so well and I am extremely proud of you. You have been through so much, yet have always kept your chin up, not giving up when the times were tough. You deserve the best of everything in life hon. Thank you soooo much for being the best friend anyone could ever ask for. I love ya dearly, and I hope you know I will be here for you no matter what path in life you take. (((Hugs)))

Gwen F. 23 years, 8 months ago

Amy, I am so happy you are home and part of our elite group. :) So happy the pain is minimal. Just remember to sip your water slowly and heed your doctor's advise. Hugs and Angel kisses. GwenF

Amy S. 23 years, 8 months ago

Well, I am home from the hospital and finally feeling good enough to take a few minutes to post on here. I am in a decent amount of pain in the incision area due to my cut being kinda high onto my diaphram, at least that is what the Dr. says.. LOL I was scheduled to have Lap and then 3 days before surgery my Dr. converted to "mini" open. Open surgery with ONE cut about 3 inches long. Okay, fine.. well come surgery time my liver ended up being very large so he had to enlarge the cut to about 5 inches instead. I am a little dissappointed as now my healing time will be longer and the scar Much bigger. But at least I am done. Some people post their surgery story so here is mine.... Got to hospital at 9:30 am on Wednesday, checked in and was taken to the preop area by 10:00. I started to change and realized they gave me the tiny gown. WHy oh why would they give someone have gastric bypass the tiny gown? Anyway, Gary tracked someone down and got me a larger gown. Changed and they came in to do IV. Now she says my SIL and friend can come in and say bye with my husband so Gary goes to get them. While he is gone the anesthiolgist comes to take me for the epidural. I paniaced because I did NOT want to go to surgery without a kiss from Gary. She says, he can come in after we are done with the epidural. Just as we are wheeling out he comes in and gives me a hug and kiss. So we go in they give me the Versed to relax me and then proceed with the epidural. Wow, now that is a painful process.. She hit the wrong spot with that thing and my leg started twitching. Anyway, finally got it done and no one would go get Gary. I was pretty angry about that and so was he. Thank GOD we were able to see each other before they wheeled me in there. Got wheeled into the OR, moved onto the little table and strapped down with my arms out to my side. The last thing I remember is Dr. Macatol asking if I wanted to fly to Jamaica or Aruba.. LOL I choose Jamaica and I was gone. Next thing I remember is waking up in recovery with my tube still in and an INTENSE pain coming from my stomach. I started to moan and they came and knocked me out again. The next time I woke up the tube was gone and I heard the two nurses talking about me saying my recovery time was taking kind of long, probably cuz they knocked me out to take out the tube. So they took me up to my room and came to find out it was 7:30. My surgery had gone 5 hours instead of 2 1/2 because of my liver and then 1 1/2 hours in recovery. According to my SIL Gary was worried sick when the surgery went so long.. My poor baby. :( They didn't even try to get me up the first day, I was in so much pain. They gave me lots of drugs that put me alot out of it and I slept through most of the first night. I ended up being discharged late on the third night. They almost didn't discharge because I was not able to urinate. The took the cath out midday Friday and by 7 I still hadn't been able to go. They ended up straight cathing me to get it all out and released me, telling me if I didn't go in 8 hours to go to the emergency room. I did end up going about 5 hours later, so all is well that way.. LOL So, now I am home and recovering slowly. Coughing kills me and laughing don't feel to good either. I am positive all will get better though, so I am plugging along. I totally look forward to that 30 CC's of water every hour though, let me tell you. LOL As far as diet, I am still on water and ensure until I see the Dr. next week and then I am sure I will be put on more stuff. Anyway, if you managed to read all this, thanks and if you are preop, I hope it helps at all. I will say, it IS worse than I thought it would be, probably because I have never had any surgery or any kind, but it is livable.

Gary S. 23 years, 8 months ago

I just wanted to let everyone know that Amy is home.. I personally think that she rushed herself out of the hsopital mostly for MY benefit..I spent 3 days sitting besides her and got a total of 5 hours sleep. But she is finally relaxed and comfortable and hopefully the worst parts of all this are behind us..thanks everyone for your great words of encouragement and support...and big THANKS YOU's to out wonderful Angel Deanna who has been more than any friend could ever ask for...more than family..for being every bit as much Amy's pilar of strength and support as I ever could!!! thanks everyone and pass the HUGS..their on ME!!!

Diane R. 23 years, 8 months ago

Hi....I just got off the phone with Amy for just a few minutes after finding out from her hubby, Gary, that she is out of surgery and doing fine. She sounded great. I was exstatic to hear her voice and KNOW she will be just fine. I love and respect you so much Amy and am so proud of you. I am proud of Gary too, for standing beside you and supporting you. Best wishes on the losing side. Your Mom.....Diane

Deanna P. 23 years, 8 months ago

Ok I have heard from Gary, Amy's husband. She is out of surgery and in recovery!! Everything is ok, she did well during the surgery!! Yayyyyy!! I am soooo relieved. For those of you who don't know me, I am Amy's best friend and angel, I live in Mississippi and she is in Connecticut, that's why I could not be there with her. :( So I have been pacing the floor waiting for the phone to ring to let me know she is ok. Her husband was a wreck also, but we had faith and kept in touch to comfort each other and pray everything turned out ok. And it did. Amy we are very proud of you hon. I believe you made a wonderful decision, but no matter what, you know I support you 300%. I love ya hon!

Deanna P. 23 years, 8 months ago

I totally forgot on the last post, I wanted to give the name and address of the hospital in case someone wanted to send well wishes to Amy. St. Mary's Hospital 56 Franklin Street Waterbury, CT 06706 She is not in a room yet, but I will post that as soon as I find out. This is so nerve-wracking, waiting to hear what is going on!!! LOL Amy, hurry up with that surgery girl before I have a stroke out here waiting!! ;-) I love ya hon!!

Deanna P. 23 years, 8 months ago

Well Amy is currently in surgery. I am anxiously waiting for word from her husband as to how everything went. I am a nervous wreck!! I am praying hard although I know everything is going to be just fine. She is one tough lady. Please keep her in your prayers and I will let everyone know as soon as I hear from Gary, and Amy is in recovery.

Vickie C. 23 years, 8 months ago

Amy, Congratulations on your surgery and welcome to the losing side! I wish you good luck and good health with your recovery. A WLS fried,