Re: TERESA AND AMYRILLIS

[Guest guest]

YAY!!! I'm am so glad you guys are on the other side now!

Thanks for posting this report, .

Now, can we talk about those BEFORE pictures I haven't got for the

website yet . . . ??

> Hello everybody. I'm back from dancing with Dr. R. Feel great. I

got

> to the hospital at 6:30am and everything went smooth from there. I

> played musical rooms for a while but that didn't bother me to much.

> My surgery took 27 minutes with no complications. Dr. R did say

that

> I had a fatty liver. I meet my littermate Amarlysis Dickerson and

her

> family while I was there and I want to thank her very much because

if

> she hadn't been there to encourage me to get up and walk around, I

> would probably still be in a lot of pain. I had very little nausea

> but did have a lot of gas pain. Thank goodness for demoral. We were

> on the Peds floor and everything and everybody was so nice there. I

> especially like Jeff (the male nurse) He spoke freely to you. When

he

> spoke to you it was not like the nurse speaking to the patients it

> was like 2 friends talking. He has very good people skills. I also

> met Sheila Weeks. She started my IV and I told her I had heard all

> about her, but of course it was all good things. I got sprung from

> DRH at about 9:30 am and made it back home at 11:30am. All in All

I'm

> glad its over and now I can look forward to a healther life. One

> immediate result that I noticed was my feet were not swollen.

Before

> surgery I could hardly walk because my feet were so swollen. When I

> got out of bed this morning they were not. So to everyone who is

> still pre-op and hasn't decided on which surgery you want....I'm

here

> to tell you that this is the best one. shorter hospital stay,

shorter

> recovery.

>

> Brewer

> 9/11/00

> BMI50