My surgery was at 8:30am on the 15th, and I came home (to my parent's
house) at 4pm on the 16th. I haven't much energy right now, but I
wanted to touch base before too much time went by. For the record,
my starting weight is 320lbs with a BMI of 58.5.

The procedure went well, and I felt really good yesterday except for
some very strong pain at the actual port site. Bending over to
do `anything' is so painful at the port! I was up & walking around
very well by 6:30pm. Some of you know that I even went to the Lap-
Band support group at the hospital last night. I crawled into bed at
11pm feeling so encouraged, despite the port pain.

This morning at 3am, however, I woke up to pee & felt flu-ish (as if
every muscle ached). I could hardly move my legs & chalked it up to
sleeping the hospital bed. By 7am, when the nurse woke me to check
my vitals, I couldn't even left my head off the pillow. And I had a
slight fever (100.6), too. But Dr. T checked me out & said that flu-
like symptoms can be a side effect of anesthesia. I've got a bit of
oozing from a couple of the incisions, but he wasn't concerned about
those either. I feel like I've been hit by a Mac truck today, but so
be it.

I left the hospital with my hubby at 1pm, dropped of my Vicoden Rx,
and browsed through a discount store next to the pharmacy while
waiting on the prescription. After that we came back to my folks', I
hugged on my babies (who were none the worse for my absence :-P) and
took a nap. I'm still sipping at my protein shake dinner, which is
gonna separate if I don't get it all down soon, so...