Day of Surgery...kinda long, sorry lol

I'm finally feeling up to posting...so here it goes!

I woke up around 3:45am to finish gathering my things. I had to be at the hospital at 5AM for registration and all that fun stuff. My mom arrived at my house around 4:40am and off we were to the hospital. I had to pack a few bags of clothes and things to do since I wouldn't be returning to my house until Saturday night.

We get to the hospital and get registered, and I was up in my room by 5:30am. I had to change into the fabulous gown and put on the nylon socks over my legs. They actually kept me warm throughout the day! lol I laid back in the bed and the nurse came in and ask if I went to the bathroom. Of course I did, because the first nurse never told me not to. So she said she could just take the pregnancy test through my IV. She comes back a few minutes later with a basket full of needles and tubes, and my salt water for the IV. She gets the blood and hooks up the IV. I didn't really pay attention to her, and then asked when they were going to come do my bloodwork. She laughed and said she already did it!

Now it's about 6:00am and we wait until after 6:30 for the next step. My mom and I just sat there watching tv, I would occassionally fall asleep for a few minutes, and then wake back up. The lady came and was ready to take me off to get ready for surgery at around 6:45am. So they made me switch beds and off we go. I said bye to my mom and she gave me a kiss. I started to get teary eyed, but had to be strong. Damn hormones! LOL So now I'm in a room with a few other patients, waiting for the anastegeologist and my surgeon to come in. I was so happy to see my surgeon, and the smile he had on his face. He's a different kind of guy...LOL Doesn't really smile a lot. He came over to check on me, and rubbed my arm to wish me luck. Then I was off to surgery. The last time I looked at the clock it was about 7:40am.

I get wheeled off into this room...mind you I'm kinda in and out of it. They gave me the "relaxer" drug...LOL We get into this room and they tell me to scoot over to the surgery table. The table was awesome...had bean bag type things where my butt was...LOL That was cool. I get situated and they took my arms and spread them out and strapped something on them....I feel myself slowly going to sleep. They put on the oxygen mask and tell me to breath heavy. I remember breathing 3 or 4 times and I was out. LOL

I hear some guy telling me to wake up and that surgery was over. I'm slowly opening my eyes and getting used to my surroundings. I hear a baby crying to my right and was kind of not understanding where I was. A few minutes later I'm quite alert, and the nurses come over to check my vitals. Can't really remember the conversations I had with the one guy...LOL I remember asking if I had the surgery and the band was in me...lol My fear was that my liver would be too big. The clock said about 10:15am when I remembered it first. At about 11AM I was wheeled back to my room. My parent's came in at 11:15ish and then my dad headed back home to let my dog out and to go home and get some sleep (he worked the night before). My mom stayed with me all day...poor thing. She didn't get to bed til midnight the night before surgery...so she was dead tired too!

The nurse comes in and tells me I have to sip 30cc's of water in an hour. Doesn't seem like hard work does it? Well it was, because I could barely stay awake. LOL Mom kept telling me to wake up and sip. Then after that hour, I had to sip 30 more cc's in 30 minutes. That went down better, as I was a little more awake. It's now about 1ish. We were waiting on my nurse from the Weight Loss Center to come see me and the dietician. Donna (my nurse) came around 1:30 with my dishcharge information. The dietician wasn't coming and I was getting anxious. I called the nurses station to see what was going on and they said she was on her way. Well she never showed up, some guy did...another dietitician for the hospital. Said about 10 words (which I already knew) and left. Pointless for me to wait...I was pretty pissed that I waited an hour for that. The next nurse comes in and is ready to get me out. She unhooks my IV and bandages that up. Checks my vitals and notices my BP was going down...hm...genious because I haven't been up out of the bed yet. So I went potty and changed, sat back down. She redid my vitals and my BP was going back up. D'oh...stupid nurse lol I was ready to go....they wheeled me out and off we went.

I went to my mom and dad's house....chillaxed in the family room with the doors blocked so Tux couldn't get in there. I took a couple cat naps and then my sister and her fiance came over with flowers and a card...and so did my friend Amy. Brought me a dozen pink roses with a balloon and a card. They smelled awesome! I was up and walking when they were over. Doing some stuff at the kitchen table....all while sipping away on my drinks!

Laying down in the bed was rough...but I managed to pass out sometime through the night lol