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Ah, there is nothing sweeter than being at home.  I went in on the 1st and was discharged on the 2nd of May.  The people at HCMC were awesome.  I had one nurse that was a bit airy, but she was still nice.  It felt good to get home and sleep in my bed.  Of course, the narcotics helped a bit as well. 

So far, nothing spectacular has happened.  i am feeling better each and every day - which is a good thing.  I am hoping to be off of narcotics by monday.  Currently I am talking 2 at night, but then I only take 1 + 1 tylenol during the day sometime after 11:00.  if I need anything additional after 6:00, I only take 2 tylenol.  Then at 11:ish when I am ready for bed, I take 2 narcs.  I am hoping that on Sunday, I can just have tylenol during the day.

I have a big day on Tuesday, the 9th and I think it will be a test regarding how good I feel.  I have to drive from sourthern Mn to Coon Rapids Mn to bring the dog to the vet for a dental appointment.  then I have a dr appointment that afternoon, so I will be up and about for a large portion of the day.  I will see how tired I am and considering that i plan to drive on my own everywhere.

Anyway, I thank everyone for the well wishes.  it is wonderful to be part of a site that provides encouragement and support wholeheartedly.  Without this site I think that it would be difficult to go down this journey.  Again, thanks to all!.

Mel

Well, I should be day 2 post op; however, my surgery date was pushed back.  I was there almost ready to go, all vitals pulled, ready to start blood work, when my surgeon came in.  He looked awful.  He was on call the night before and a stabbing situation came in and he was basically in surgery until 4:30 am.  That meant he only had 2 hours of sleep and he indicated that he really didn"t think that he could do it.  I gotta say, when your surgeon indicates that he is having doubts - just say thank you and let's reschedule.  So, he wanted to get me in on Wednesday, but there were no OR's available.  So, I have been pushed out to May 1st.  One more lovely week on the liquid diet.  I have to say that I am disappointed, but I know that it is for the best. 

Anyway, will struggle through another week.  I might have some work issues because my goal was take off 3 weeks to recover since I had the time, but now I will only get 2 weeks because I have decided to not go back for the rest of this week.  My bigger concern is that my DH doesn't have much time at all so it could mean that he isn't there during the surgery and that he has to work.  I would prefer that he be there and be there to pick me up the next day as well, but we will have to see.

Dr. Krook is the best and so is Becky at HCMC.  The pre op nurse who was helping me couldn't believe that a surgeon would come in and admit that they didn't think that they should go forward with the surgery because they were tired.  To me it means that Dr. Krook is human but he cared enough and was respectful enough to talk honestly about it with me.  I do appreciate it.

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Well, 17lbs down isn't so bad, but I am having a problem with the liquids.  It isn't that I want to eat solid food or that I have cheated, it is that I just can't stomach anything. 

Last weekend, got blisters on the roof of my mouth.  My PC Doctor looked at and thought it was an alergy and that it was hives.  So,  by process of elimination it is either dairy or the SF cranberry juice.   If it is dairy (which has bothered me the past), then that meant no yogurt smoothies, and changing from dairy to soy milk.  Can't stand soy milk, so it has been a challenge.  Thank you to whomever on the board suggested making chicken noodle soup and straining out the juice.  It has been my lifesaver.  I know that I am not getting in the calories that I should but I only have two more days to go on this and then on Tuesday, it all begins.

I have decided to "come clean" with some people and let them know that I am having surgery.  The first hurdle was the mother in law - she accepted it fairly well and I know she will be supportive, but I also know that she is one who believes that if you just eat a little less, the pounds will magically disappear.  She actually is hoping that her son will not get on the ball and lose a couple of pounds.  We will see how that works...  Also, fessed up to my best friend (who seems to be supportive - worst fear is that she can be a gossip - lover her to death, but I know her faults as well), and I told 2 co-workers as well.  I am sure that the info will be spread like wildfire because I have one of those jobs where there are unhappy people and they only become happy by talking about others.  Oh well - what will be will be.

Anyway, a couple of days to go to start "loserville" as they say.  I really wish I could figure out how to put cool things on my blog like the ticker and stuff.  I will have to start asking on the board  - if anyone knows and is readying this, any help you can get regarding changing the appearance of this would be most helpful.

Man - I never want to eat another cream based soup in my life!  The good thing about the HCMC program is that they don't want you to have any cream based soups after the 7th day post surgery.  I think that is great.  And to insure that you don't have cream based soups post surgey, they give you the option to eat it in the liquid phase until you cannot stand it anymore.  Other than cream based soups, the liquid diet has not gone too bad.  As I stated in my story, liquid diets have been a friend of mine for years.  Another nine days will be ok.  I have actually lose 11lbs since I started this. 

However, I can certainly say that TV advertisements are certainly not kind.  It is AMAZING to me how many commercials are either about food or have food in them but aren't the produce of the commercial.  Anyway, it is something that I must deal with along with everything else that will happen in this journey.