Post Surgery Diet⟫ Liquids
Well it’s just after 4.30 which was the last notification I received from Alexa about meds – I might have to cancel the ones in the middle of the night as I wonder if that’s why I’m not able to settle into sleep?
I wrote a response to someone on one of the bariatric subreddits regarding suggestions once you’ve had the op and before I knew it, I’d written reams! I might as well reproduce it here.
“Had my surgery on 28th so four days post op.
⟫ I definitely second the walking thing – I took it to heart and surprised a few nurses with my insistence on staggering around so soon after the surgery.
⟫ Don’t be too eager to get home – I miss the morphine as I came home the next evening.
⟫ Protein water is an absolute godsend as I’ve been sipping it constantly since I got home.
⟫ Pillows – so many pillows for every conceivable body part to rest against!
⟫ Cuppa-soups sieved with a scoop of skimmed milk powder is absolutely lush and allowed on (my) liquid diet. Use a teaspoon to eat it and be prepared for it to be lukewarm before you finish.
⟫ Heating pad or blanket – I press it against my incisions and it does help with the pain/tugging.
⟫ However slow you think you’re sipping, sip slower!
⟫ I use Alexa notifications to remind me to take my meds – sometimes it feels like it never shuts up but I’m slowly getting into a decent regimen.
⟫ Sleep when your body needs it – I’m struggling with this one. But if you crash in the middle of the day, just view it as your body telling you that it needs to rest for a bit.
⟫ Get some nice compression socks – I got mine from Amazon and looking down at the skeleton bones knee high socks makes me smile every time and that’s worth the £9.99 they cost me!
⟫ This might just be me, but I’ve felt very emotional – my skin feels thin as tissue paper, constantly finding new bruises from injections and bloods being taken in the hospital. Allow yourself to feel whatever you feel, try not to judge or rush yourself and remember this is a marathon not a sprint.
⟫ Last, but most important for me, hug those people who have helped get you where you are – you’ve been through the trenches together and things are going to get better, but a hug of appreciation/love/reassurance means a lot in the middle of the night when you can’t sleep because of the ruddy gas pains! Ahem, yeah, like I said, I’m struggling with sleeping.”
So weird to see how I would respond to someone else yet I’ve grown impatient with myself for being so slow, not getting moving quicker, not able to achieve things faster. Putting it here means that I might re-read it every now and then and remind myself about those principles.
Got my Amazon parcel sooner than expected so the miralax has arrived. I don’t know whether to try it or not. I read that unless you feel like you need to go but can’t, to let your body work it out on its’ own, especially as on the liquid diet you haven’t got a lot of waste anyway. On the other hand, some people say to get ahead of it and use something like miralax to soften the way and make it less painful. I’m going to wait until Friday (a) because the girls are out at a hospital appointment for Book_grim so I’ll have privacy and (b) no one else needs to be around for that! I don’t currently feel like I have a ‘bat stuck in the belfry’ so am going to push that a little further down the list of things to worry about.
I ordered a sitting up pillow on J’s suggestion using the money from S (I’m going to have to think of pseudonyms for them because initials is just too flippin’ confusing! I think I’m just gonna go with Jay and Sare) and it’s due on Wednesday. I am hopeful it will help with this constant aggravating ache in my chest from swallowing air but we shall see. At least I know it won’t go to waste – I can never have too many pillows! My brain is currently trying to think of reasons to stay awake but I think I’m gonna shut everything down and try to get some sleep.
Book_grim isn’t working tomorrow night so I want to spend some time with her. And I would really love it if Stripes would have a pamper day – long-ass shower, wash her hair, change her bedding and just rest. We made it through the first obstacle course and now we recuperate and build ourselves up for the rest of it that is no doubt coming down the road at us!
I think I’ll try to remember to unload all of my thoughts on the car situation tomorrow, if I remember!
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