Unusual post op story
Hi everyone, I wanted to share what’s been going on my feeling of gloom and doom has passed, but it’s been a ridiculous ride.
My mother, father and boss have all had a gastric sleeve. (I’m really good friends with my old boss.) i’ve been in the ER six times and hospitalized once for all the complications I’ve had my doctor gave me a blood thinner. I was throwing a blood that was crazy. I’ve had to go into the ER multiple times for a bunch of things, I contracted strep, and pneumonia separately over the course of the last eight weeks that I had to be hospitalized for and they scoped me because of all the complications I’ve had at six weeks. They suspected I had a stricture, but it turns out I have three ulcers and the ulcers were causing me huge issues with swallowing and keeping things down. I have not hit my protein or water intake daily metric for the surgery a singular day. Today marks eight weeks. I’ve lost around 50 pounds in those eight weeks finally the last week I’ve been able to keep some foods down such as pulled chicken. I also suffer from EOE, which has also been playing a problem for me. My surgeon was absolutely baffled from the level of complications I’ve had. My job also illegally fired me while I was out on approved medical leave, so I’ve been dealing with that. Not that it’s related, but it adds to the mental struggle. The reason I’m writing all of this is because I have to logically assume that someone else has dealt with similar stuff like me with this. I was wondering if anyone had any advice other than suffer through it and it’ll be worth it in the long run. The Weight loss is already been fantastic. My clothes are falling off my body basically but this food and regurgitation thing has me worried because I want to go back into law-enforcement and I’m afraid that this could be an ongoing issue of dehydration and foo. Prior to the surgery I only drank water. I don’t drink coffee, energy, drink, drinks or anything else except water and tea so if anybody has any advice or pointers, they can give me to help a suffering human being I would appreciate it. Strange reason the only thing I’ve been able to drink is pure life tea. I know the sugar is supposed to be bad for me, but it is literally the only liquid I’ve been able to keep down regularly. I was wondering if anyone knew why that was the case. I haven’t thrown it up a single time.