Popular Post Randomguy Posted January 5 Popular Post Share #1 Posted January 5 All is good! No setbacks, everything moving along nicely. Got the clearance to behave like a normal person if normalcy can be tolerated. So now these things are allowed: Sleeping on my sides (can do right side already, left is still too painful) is ok and can stop using 5 pillows at night. Got the ok for medicinal Zima, but was warned that bubbles cause gas and all. I only say this because post-surgery gas doesn't go up, it has to go down to go out. I do get filled up easily, so I may wait on this somewhat. Ok to eat any food that cause no issues. Pizza, here I come! GF activities are ok, too, but with cautions. The surgeon said that the incisions are safe enough, but I will have pain in the surgery area. She said that the body treats all this trauma like a grievous injury and the nerves just don't know how to fire properly to make that pain make sense just yet. I can start light stretching and exercising as tolerated. She said cycling would be ok but I would have midsection pain for a while yet. Not a great loss at the moment as my left knee is so messed up currently. Swimming would be ok, but probably a good idea to wait until the end of the month. No lifting or ab stuff until at least 8 weeks have passed. I still have to be careful in certain ways, and I still get extremely tired extremely easily (lots of sleeping going on here). The doctor said that this is because it is a major surgery and all kinds of plumbing had to be rooted up, repositioned and refitted, sliced and diced and moved around, sewn in place, and then more stuff had to be rooted up, repositioned and refitted, moved around, and sewn in place on top of the other stuff, so healing will be taking place for another couple of months yet for it to be complete. Traveling is hard still, feeling every bump when in a car. Overall, it seems a good outcome, yay! 3 6 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 5 Share #2 Posted January 5 She? An avowed misogynist like you let a woman slice and dice that close to your wedding tackle? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted January 5 Share #3 Posted January 5 Even funnier, I stopped at "she" and did not know you used sliced and diced until I made my witty retort and went back and read your whole post. Congrats on the improvements. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 5 Author Share #4 Posted January 5 1 minute ago, jsharr said: She? An avowed misogynist like you let a woman slice and dice that close to your wedding tackle? I am no misogynist, sir, chicks are awesome! I told her that I could kiss her, though, and that she made my health much better. She was pretty smiley, but I have the impression that she hears that a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead ★ Posted January 5 Share #5 Posted January 5 Great news 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shootingstar Posted January 5 Share #6 Posted January 5 Didn't know your surgery meant alot of shifting around inside. Go easy and slow with new exercises, etc. Need to heal properly. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petitepedal ★ Posted January 5 Share #7 Posted January 5 Slow and steady 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby ★ Posted January 5 Share #8 Posted January 5 Yay! We like good news. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 5 Author Share #9 Posted January 5 1 hour ago, Kirby said: Yay! We like good news. I had lots of food help from the sunshine committee in the form of clear protein drinks, protein jello and smoothies, and regular protein drinks. Not having to track everything down helped so much! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted January 5 Share #10 Posted January 5 As long as you can eat pizza, life is good. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razors Edge ★ Posted January 5 Share #11 Posted January 5 13 hours ago, Randomguy said: Pizza, here I come! For the TL;DR folks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted January 5 Share #12 Posted January 5 Great news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randomguy Posted January 5 Author Share #13 Posted January 5 14 hours ago, shootingstar said: Didn't know your surgery meant alot of shifting around inside. I am probably dramatizing it a bit, but there was a haital hernia repair done first which required some remodeling, spackling, mesh, hammer and nails, and then the other portion of the surgery was to wrap my upper stomach around the esophagus and stitch and bolt everything down like they do in the formula 1 pitstops. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bikeman564™ Posted January 5 Share #14 Posted January 5 glad things are going well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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