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An update
I'm 8 days post-surgery and I'm doing very well! I've had a couple of minor complications (allergic reactions to two medicines they gave me and a local infection in one of my incision sites), but thankfully, nothing major. All my plumbing is hooked up correctly! I even started eating more "normal" foods the other day - spaghetti sauce with ground turkey, a Lean Cuisine meal, and a flatbread pizza - with no ill effects!
The most difficult thing so far is trying to learn the cues my new stomach is putting out. I've gone so long knowing what "hungry" and "full" feel like, but now that's all been flipped upside-down. I haven't felt hungry yet at all, which makes it difficult to remember to eat, as weird as that sounds. I'm not able to decipher "full" yet, so I have to eat based off of measuring my food - my new stomach can handle a cup of food, so I'm relying on measuring out a cup of food in order to know how much to eat. It's pretty weird. Thankfully, I'm doing well at eating slowly and chewing my food very well - I've only had one time where I ate (scrambled eggs) too fast and I felt bad for about an hour afterwards.
I'm still sleeping an awful lot. Between the residual affects of the general anesthesia and the prescription antihistamine I'm on (for the allergic reactions), I get tired easily. It's a bit annoying because I want to be more productive, but I'm trying to give myself a break. :-)
That's pretty much it!
The most difficult thing so far is trying to learn the cues my new stomach is putting out. I've gone so long knowing what "hungry" and "full" feel like, but now that's all been flipped upside-down. I haven't felt hungry yet at all, which makes it difficult to remember to eat, as weird as that sounds. I'm not able to decipher "full" yet, so I have to eat based off of measuring my food - my new stomach can handle a cup of food, so I'm relying on measuring out a cup of food in order to know how much to eat. It's pretty weird. Thankfully, I'm doing well at eating slowly and chewing my food very well - I've only had one time where I ate (scrambled eggs) too fast and I felt bad for about an hour afterwards.
I'm still sleeping an awful lot. Between the residual affects of the general anesthesia and the prescription antihistamine I'm on (for the allergic reactions), I get tired easily. It's a bit annoying because I want to be more productive, but I'm trying to give myself a break. :-)
That's pretty much it!