Today is the day before the operation, and I am supposed to get a call from the doctor or a nurse telling me about what everything to expect... what I can't eat or drink etc. I don't know at all! And they haven't called me yet. I'm a little angry because it looks unprofessional. If they don't call within the next 1-2 hours, I will call them and complain. :(

I'm nervous about tomorrow! I should come in at 9AM for talks with the dr. and to get blood tests and EKG done etc.. And at 1PM I will have the operation. They told me before that I should stay 1-2 days in the hospital, but others I've read about online said they left again a few hours after the operation! I want to know how long my recovery time is so that I can continue my working-out plan!

Good luck with it xxx

The doctor called me yesterday(sunday) and told me that I cannot eat or drink anything after midnight.. that's all. But of course I didn't drink alcohol either nor did I smoke.. like I usually would have done on a saturday evening.

Now I will get ready and then head for the clinic where they will do tests and then I will go get the operation.

Will keep posting on my experience! :)

Thanks Kezzy for your support!

Thinking of you xxx

Hi Keliya! Thanks for sharing...I go in on Thursday for my surgery. I am looking forward to hearing from you.

So on the day of my operation (monday), I came in a few hours earlier because they had to make a few blood tests and check my heart and lungs etc.

When I came into the operation room, the doctor talked to me a little.. told me to relax that everything will be fine, and then I saw a nurse inject me the the general anesthesia and then I was knocked out!

I woke up feeling alright. My stomach was a bit sore but not half as bad as I thought it would hurt.

The second and third day I was making a lot of progress. The doctor was happy at the speed of the healing. Only issue was that I got blisters under the bandages because i was allergic to them. But he just took the bandages off and gave me other ones that i wouldnt be allergic to.

The only real pain that I had so far was my right shoulder. The doctor said its because the air that was pumped into my stomach came to my shoulder.. Thats why i neede the painkillers. My stomach doesnt hurt much at all!

I have another day and a half here at the hospital. I will write more tomorrow.

Good luck on your operation mysticviewer! I was pretty nervous before my operation, but I didn't have to be. So no need for you to be either! :)

Great! Glad it went well...the shoulder pain is the worst pain isn't it?

Hope you are home and all recovered soon xxxx

Thanks. I got the call to be there at 10:45 and surgery about 12:20 and overnight stay...which sux. Are you still in the hospital? Did you have open surgery or keyhole?

I had the keyhole surgery.

I was allowed to go home on thursday, and on friday evening i got really nauseaus that i had to throw up!

The good thing is the pain is getting less and less, but the nausea that night was so bad!

Monday I have a follow-up with the dr. and he will take a look if everythings the way its supposed to be.

i was going to have procedure keyhole surgery,
but stuff went wrong and they has to cut me open,

they tried to take out my stomach by "accident" and they thought they might have punctured by bowel, the docot said to me the next day "you gave me quite a scare" as in "you died and we brought you back to life"

an over night stay turned into 2 weeks i wasnt aloud to eat or drink..i was sick everynight and day vomiting up
bright green fluid, from my drip...of morphine. and told me not to give back the sick bags untill they were almost full ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!

it was 2 weeks of pure hell.

did i mention i have a 12 inch scar from the middle of my chest all the way under my right breast?

im glad your experiance was better than mine!

best of luck!

xoxo