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December 3, 2015

I came home from the hospital the next afternoon after surgery since I was a 23 hour admit. My husband picked me up and I went up to my bedroom to my chaise lounge.

My stomach felt like an extended tight drum. I had gained 8 pounds from surgery. They fill your abdominal cavity with C02 to make room to do the surgery. My incision sites looked like someone stabbed me in my stomach 5 times. I had glue on my incisions. I made sure I did not IS every couple of hours. Relaxed and slowly ate my full liquid diet as I noted below.

I had prepared strained cream soups prior to my admission. I froze them into ice cubes and put them in zip lock bags in the freezer. The soups I prepared were cream of mushroom, chicken, shrimp and split pea and ham soup. I talked to the dietician and since I blended the pea soup with milk and strained it I was ok'd to eat this on my full liquid diet. The pea soup was the best soup with chicken and shrimp next. The mushroom soup wasn't good and I like mushroom soup but not strained. I also had sugar free puddings and jello.