Today is day 4 after my banding surgery and while the pneumonia is making me feel lousy, the actual gastric banding feels great!

The first 2 days I felt like I had a big balloon in my stomach and I found it difficult to bend at the waist even slightly. I also found it hard to sleep in my bed as it was too soft and I needed to be slightly elevated. So I spent the first night on the couch and the next night in the hospital.

Last night was much easier! Yesterday I woke up and felt so much better in my abdomen. I can bend a little and also I can now sleep in my bed. I also find getting up not as hard as I did. It was really painful and awkward the first few days trying to get up. But now it is pretty much normal, however I am still being careful! I am so paranoid about the band slipping that I am trying to take it nice and easy.

I was weighed the night I was admitted into hospital and I had lost 4kg! So I guess that is a positive! I will weigh myself on day 7 and measure.

As for eating there hasn’t been much! I am really not hungry. I read the diet sheet wrong! I thought I was on clear fluids for 2 weeks, but the clear fluid portion is only for the first 24 hours. So now I can have pretty much anything I can suck through a straw. Mostly I am having shakes, chicken soup broth, juice, water and tea. I am finding 1 shake a day is enough, I can’t stomach anymore.

The wounds are getting a little itchy which means they are healing … it also means the sticky stuff is irritating my skin! I have big red welts on my body from all the sticky stuff they have put on me, even though I tell them I have an allergy! But I guess there is nothing else they can do.

Can’t wait till the next stage! Pureed food! LOL YAY