3 weeks post op, check up

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hi all,

Today I had my three week check up, no problems

all is well, recovery going well, 31 pounds

GONE!!

I wanted to comment about my hospital stay at Mt

Sinai, I had a private duty nurse EXCELLENT CARE:

FLYNN, I totally reccommend her. One nurse

on 10 E was exceptional (I think her name was

Ann, or Margaret), others were in and out of

the room and I was confused as to what was going

on, but all went well for me. The surgeons saw me

EVERY DAY: Dr. Gagner daily, twice with Dr.

Quinn, Dr. DeChappel daily, Dr. Leibowicz, the

anesthesiologist came to see me the day after

surgery, great guy, the residents dropped in,

too.

Dr. Gagner came twice one day, once in the am,

once in the the pm.

They said I was the new poster boy, 2 hours for

surgery, an extra 20 minutes to deal with

adhesions from my twenty year old appendectomy.

Poster boy or not, in recovery my blood pressure

stayed low and they kept me there for a long

while, 11am till 8pm, but the culprit was the

anesthesia so they thought. No bad after effects.

I walked a lot in the hospital. I walk a lot now,

about 10-12 blocks daily, one hour to an hour and

a half.

I eat tiny amounts of food, but I am satisfied.

Tiny = one poached egg; another meal may be: 2-3

oz of grilled chicken through the food processor.

Tiny, Get it?

Anyway my folks have been here to help, and it's

been great.

As far as Ivonne , I called her one morning

after my major incision began spewing a foul

smelling yellow " gook. " (disgusting)As it turned

out it was " destabilized fat, " from the incision

destabilized by the laparascopic tools (this

continues to ooze, but doc says it's OK), no

infection, normal. Ivonne tracked down Dr. Quinn

on Good Friday, AND she called me twice to make

sure I had spoken to the doctor and that all was

going well, even as late as 9pm. She has always

been helpful to me. (in the past I have found the

office impossible to contact, and I empathize

with those problems people face, this was one in

my favor).

So, I am VERY GRATEFUL for this recovery and wish

everyone the same good things.

Yours, LennyB

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