My fantastically supportive boyfriend completely exhausted bless him!
About two hours after surgery
The box my band came in :)
I officially have a gastric band! My dreams have come true! I am so happy!
I was banded yesterday with a 10ml band at Dolan Park Hospital, Bromsgrove. It's the hospital groups own hospital.
I arrived at my admission time which was 7am. I sat in reception area
while they called everyone to there room. At 9am I was taken to my room
number 10. My weight was taken. I had gone from 21st 6lb to 20st 8lb from the pre-op diet!
I settled in and waited for sometime. The nurse came in to admit me at
12pm, followed shorty by the anaesitist and Mr Richardson my surgeon.
was quite a long surgical list that day so I was told I was on the
afternoon list. As you can understand my anxiety level was increasing
throughout the day. I had been NBM since midnight the night before so
had a really bad dry mouth, and stated getting ulcers. Eventually the
nurse came in to tell me to get showered, put on my paper pants and stockings.
I kissed my boyfriend good bye and walked down to the theatre with the
theatre nurse who was lovely. I then went into the anaesthetic room to
have the canulla placed. The anesethtisist was a lovely guy. I was then
walked into the theatre and was introduced to the staff in there. I was
told to lay in the table and open my gown. I laid down and placed my
arms outstretched on the supports. A mask was placed over my face and I
was informed of every step. I was aware of tears running down my face at the point. They talked to me while I had the mask on,
then I began to feel funny and started wiggling my legs saying I feel
funny, the last thing I remember is him telling me it's okay, then I
came round.
When I came round in recovery, I was with the nurse who had taken me
down before. I'm not sure how long I was there for. I woke up still
intubated which was horrible. As soon as they saw me fighting the tube,
they removed it. I was in quite a lot of pain and was seeing double from
all the meds. They gave me more pain relief and I didn't feel sick at
all. After a while I was taken back to my room where my boyfriend was
waiting. I had oxygen in etc. by now it was 5.30 pm. The surgeon came to
see me after but I don't really remember what he said. My
blood pressure was very low and I couldn't drink due to the pain and drowsiness so I had 3 bags of fluid throughout the day and night.
The night nurse was not the nicest person. She seemed moody and
irritated. I didn't really need that while I was in pain and feeling
sick. She got irritated at me for not am drinking but when I
explained I felt nauseous she said oh sorry ill get you some anti
sickness.
After an awful nights sleep, I got up at 5.30am and attempted to wash
myself. I was in quite a bit if pain. I then got dressed and the night
nurse came in and gave me a heparin injection, painkillers and my
breakfast, cranberry juice, a smoothie and a yogurt.
I struggled to get dressed on my own and waited for my boyfriend to return. Then we left it was 7.30am.
The journey home was fine. I find pressing a pillow against your stomach when you have position really helps with pain.
I was only able to have other than breakfast yesterday less then 1/4
Heinz soup and a miller light. Drank plenty of peppermint tea due to the
gas pain but I slept through last night!
Can't wait to start seeing results, I'm so full of hope
So I started at 21st 6.8lb and I am now 19st 10lb. Quite a quick and rapid weight loss but I am prepared for it to slow down when I start eating solid food and even prepared for a possible gain while my body adjusts. I just really can't wait until I notice I'm getting smaller and I need to get smaller clothes :)
