Today I'm going to feed myself very well, for tomorrow I fast. Well, not exactly. Clear liquids only for three days, then nothing the 4th day, as that will be day of surgery.
I can't tell you how happy I'll be Thursday afternoon (exact time unknown) when I wake up and find that B A G gone! Oh, I'll be sore and miserable for a couple days, but morphine will take care of the worst of it. I expect I'll have some trouble pooping the normal way until the reconnected parts get used to being reconnected. Or maybe they'll be so happy to be reconnected that I'll be . . . oh, let's not go there.
I already have the clear liquids on hand. Apple juice. Cranberry peach juice. White grape juice. Martinelli's apple cider. Tea. Popsicles with the exception of red or purple color popsicles. And all the water I can drink. Instructions are to drink plenty of water. I'm going to float into the hospital Thursday morning.
Before the surgery, though, the surgeon wants to see the condition of the lower bowel tract, and he needs my cooperation to do that. Namely: Fleets enema, one hour before I leave home for the sigmoidoscope exam. Yuck!!
That appointment is at 8 AM, Tuesday morning. You know how early I'll have to get up, get myself put together (which means waking up!), do the enema and leave the house by 7:15 AM? Well, I can sleepwalk to the car, but I don't think I can sleepdrive. Oh, wait! I think Joan is going to drive me. Have to check with her for sure. If that's the case, then I can sleepwalk to the car and sleepwalk into the sig suite.
Maybe I should think about moving to Folsom. Seems to be the place where all the action takes place for me.
Oh, and lest I forget, the day before surgery, I am to drink four liters . . . yes, FOUR liters--that's FOUR LITERS of GoLYTELY. Directions say: Drink one 8 ounce cup of the solution rapidly every 10 minutes. But it doesn't say anything about how many 10 minute intervals. Then it goes on to direct consuming the rest of the solution after a certain result occurs in about an hour.
Oh, my insides are going to be c l e a n on Thursday morning. And the only thing I rejoice about Thursday morning is waking up to bandages on the belly and NO BAG!
I expect to be on starvation diet, that is, nothing by mouth, for a few days until the surgeon is sure that he has done a good job of sewing together the two parts of the colon. Then probably clear liquids for another few days.
I tell you, I'm gonna be hongreeee! when I'm finally permitted to eat something solid. I might even go for a steak. Ummm, no. I don't think I'll ever be that hungry.
Of course, there's a risk with any kind of surgery, and this is major major abdominal surgery, so I thank you all in advance for your prayers and good healing thoughts.
DD friends are the best!!
Bless
I can't tell you how happy I'll be Thursday afternoon (exact time unknown) when I wake up and find that B A G gone! Oh, I'll be sore and miserable for a couple days, but morphine will take care of the worst of it. I expect I'll have some trouble pooping the normal way until the reconnected parts get used to being reconnected. Or maybe they'll be so happy to be reconnected that I'll be . . . oh, let's not go there.
I already have the clear liquids on hand. Apple juice. Cranberry peach juice. White grape juice. Martinelli's apple cider. Tea. Popsicles with the exception of red or purple color popsicles. And all the water I can drink. Instructions are to drink plenty of water. I'm going to float into the hospital Thursday morning.
Before the surgery, though, the surgeon wants to see the condition of the lower bowel tract, and he needs my cooperation to do that. Namely: Fleets enema, one hour before I leave home for the sigmoidoscope exam. Yuck!!
That appointment is at 8 AM, Tuesday morning. You know how early I'll have to get up, get myself put together (which means waking up!), do the enema and leave the house by 7:15 AM? Well, I can sleepwalk to the car, but I don't think I can sleepdrive. Oh, wait! I think Joan is going to drive me. Have to check with her for sure. If that's the case, then I can sleepwalk to the car and sleepwalk into the sig suite.Maybe I should think about moving to Folsom. Seems to be the place where all the action takes place for me.
Oh, and lest I forget, the day before surgery, I am to drink four liters . . . yes, FOUR liters--that's FOUR LITERS of GoLYTELY. Directions say: Drink one 8 ounce cup of the solution rapidly every 10 minutes. But it doesn't say anything about how many 10 minute intervals. Then it goes on to direct consuming the rest of the solution after a certain result occurs in about an hour.
Oh, my insides are going to be c l e a n on Thursday morning. And the only thing I rejoice about Thursday morning is waking up to bandages on the belly and NO BAG!
I expect to be on starvation diet, that is, nothing by mouth, for a few days until the surgeon is sure that he has done a good job of sewing together the two parts of the colon. Then probably clear liquids for another few days.
I tell you, I'm gonna be hongreeee! when I'm finally permitted to eat something solid. I might even go for a steak. Ummm, no. I don't think I'll ever be that hungry.
Of course, there's a risk with any kind of surgery, and this is major major abdominal surgery, so I thank you all in advance for your prayers and good healing thoughts.
DD friends are the best!!
Bless