3 days post-op

I have been home for 3 days now and I am starting to feel better. When I first came home on Wednesday I felt like I had been hit by a bus. I was never told that this might happen. All I ever heard was once you get home you will feel like getting up and about and that I could probably return to work within a couple of days. This definitely is not the case, and I consider myself to have a high pain threshold. My abdomen feels like it is going to drop off every time I stand up or even move in bed. I think it is because of all the bruising from the laproscopes (I have four cuts/scars from those and one where they inserted the fill port). I am taking a narcotic med for the pain and have been tapering off. I really hate the side effects of pain meds.Well my home nurse just left and said I was doing good. I think I will try to take a walk outside now that the sun is shining.

3 days to go.

I have 3 more days till I get my Lap Band. I am excited and nervous. It seems that there is a lot of negative talk about the band in Blog Land. I keep hearing about band slippage, and getting sick and how to cheat information. One woman who just got a bypass asked me why I am getting the band instead of the bypass. Legitimate question, I guess. I feel more comfortable getting the band, and not having my stomach amputated. The band seems less invasive and more like a tool to use to help me keep my weight off. I can lose weight easily, I just can't seem to keep it off and I have proven that many times over.
I am ready for this change. I can't wait to go through the many different sizes of clothes that I have in my closet and storage containers. They have been waiting a long time. I will get rid of my big clothes as I shed them. That will be very cathartic. I have so many clothes waiting to go to Goodwill. I can't wait till my closet just has clothes in it that fit me.
My weight has impactedIt so many areas of my life. Clothing is at the bottom of the list. I have a big job ahead of me and I am glad I have so much support.