Woken up at 4 a.m., mostly because the guy in the other bed needs work done on him - he's clearly a lot worse off than me. The doctor appears about 9 a.m. and tells me again (he popped in after the op yesterday) that everything went well. He has some photos of my insides and explains them. I can see the stitches where he mended the hiatus hernia which was allowing my stomach to protrude through the diaphragm, also the stitches where the fundus has been wrapped around my oesophagus.
The only worry is that in the stomach he found some very small polyps - they appear white in the photos. They are very small and he seems very confident they are benign but he has taken biopsies to have checked.
He seems confident I'll be ready to leave tomorrow (op day plus 2) as long as I can eat. He asks me if I want to try soft food for breakfast, so I do. I think it was yoghurt (my memory of this time is not perfect - but then again it never is), but anyway it goes down smoothly. As I'm finishing T and her mum arrive and I tell them I'm feeling OK.
The rest of the days passes slowly and with many naps. I have coffee, and at lunch I have yoghurt, jelly and custard. There is additional pain relief, but not as much as yesterday. I am tired and still a bit light-headed but otherwise feel fine. I manage to use the toilet several times on my own, but still no bowel movement (this is a normal side-effect of the surgery, and anyway I've hardly eaten anything). Tonight I'm off the drip (the line is still in my arm, though) and I get a sleeping pill and fall asleep within 15 minutes.
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