Doing great! Had one hickup last weekend but was nothing major.
I am 5 weeks out as of this past Monday. All pain is gone, all incisions are healed. Starting into my exercise regimen.
Diet has now progressed from all liquid to pureed and soft food only. I have a couple more weeks of that then I can move to more solid protein sources.
Here is the good news....
Obviously weight loss has slowed from the 10-12lbs a week I was seeing to a more reasonable 2-4/wk. Typically people that have this surgery I had have experienced a stall around 5 weeks out. Typically this last a week or so and then it starts to come off again.
Here are the averages for my surgeon's patients based on my surgery type:
1 month out 18% Excess weight loss, for me is ~31lbs of loss, I hit ~46lbs
3 months out 37% Excess weight loss, for me is ~63lbs of loss
6 months out 60% Excess weight loss, for me is ~103lbs of loss
1 year out 85% Excess weight loss, for me is ~145lbs of loss
To keep this RV related, 145lbs of loss equals ~24gal of avgas, the ability to run with full baggage allowance, and we will see how much of an improvement in T/O performance!