They took my PCA pump away!!! Nooooo!!! Now if I needed any pain meds, they wanted to give me liquid tylenol with codine. I begged them not to give me that. All I can remember about that stuff was when I had my tonsils out. It made me barf so bad! Dr. Wongsa came in to visit me before he had another surgery. He said that the woman he operated on would be staying with me. Total bummer! That meant that I wouldn’t get to have my husband stay with me that night. 
Dr. Wongsa lectured me during this visit. He said that my liver was enlarged due to my eating too many carbs. He said that he had told me not to eat any carbs 2-3 months before the surgery. Once again, my husband is my witness, I was never told that. He said that I was probably in much more pain than I should have been because the surgery was much more difficult. They have to lift your liver in order to get to the organs they’re operating on… and the more fatty of a liver you have, the more difficult this becomes. He proceeded to let me know that he was worried I was not committed enough to do what I was supposed to do now that I had had the surgery. I promised him that I would do everything I was supposed to. I would show him. I was bound and determined to succeed at this!
They had me on liquids this day. They told me to have 1 oz of liquid every 2 hours. I couldn’t do it. I probably had a total of 6 ounces all day. I had some apple juice… some chicken broth… and later in the day they brought me some sugar-free jello. Can you believe they put a regular popscicle on the tray! Those big dummies! Us RNY patients can’t have sugar!!! I just left it on the tray. Or did my husband eat it? I can’t remember…
Later that day, they brought in the other lady who had her surgery earlier that morning. She was not handling the morphine well at all. It was making her super nauseated. They had to take her off of the PCA pump shortly after her arriving to our room. It was so difficult being in a room with another patient. She had like 5 family members / friends who wanted to be with her. And I had two. That made for one VERY crowded room. If you have this surgery, I would recommend trying to get a private room if there is any way possible.
That evening, when Dr. Wongsa came in to check on us both, he advised me that he was going to keep me in the hospital an extra day. Since we were going to be staying in a hotel anyway, and I had the enlarged liver, he wanted to keep on eye on me a little while longer.
