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My wife @kim1965, had same surgery March 1, and some of the same complications with pain. Our day 2 was good though, but day 3 was bad with difficulties breathing. They found a blood clot in both lungs, from the surgery and started blood thinners. Hang in there, her situation improved to where they sent her home on day 5, only to be brought back to the hospital 2 days later for 2 more days. She is now almost 3 weeks out from surgery and is doing better eating, trying to walk every day(maybe 20 minutes), but let your body rest when you get home. The eating will be slow to progress, more like grazing, as very difficult to eat a full meal, but it gets better. We hope she will improve quicker now with the walking per surgeon suggestions. I wish you all the same, and if there is any questions we can help with please let us know, and we will try to share what we can that worked for us.

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Hello @kim1965,

I appreciate the update on your wife's post-surgery recovery. It is good to know that she is seeing improvement. You are so right to advise @milagro45pr to eat small meals and/or "grazing" as you said after surgery. It takes a while for the digestive tract to heal and normalize itself after extensive surgery.

Were there any types of foods (or liquids) that were especially helpful when your wife began to eat?