I was well prepared, the program at Johns Hopkins had gotten me ready and I was more excited than anything to get the petal to the metal. Hopkins even makes their guidelines available to the public, if anyone would like to read over the material.
The weekend before the surgery, I went shopping and got two sets of the below list. I got two because I was going to be spending nights at my house, but would be spending most days at my parents' apartment since my mom works from home and is an RN. This list was derived from the guidelines linked above:
- Protein powder
- Lowest fat cottage cheese
- Plain Greek Yogurt
- Dannon Triple Zero Oikos
- No sugar added pudding pops
- Sugar free popsicles
- Fairlife skim milk
- Ricotta Cheese (lowest fat)
- Pudding (powder)
- Jell-O
The biggest key however is getting at least that 64 ounces of water in daily. Before discharge I got a water bottle from the hospital that had increments of 2 hours to get 8 ounces of water in. If I started at 7:00am, and I was consistent, I would get my 64 ounces in by 11:00pm. I still use the one from Hopkins, but I found inspiration here. But, even taking a standard 32oz Nalgene with a Sharpie would work, but you would have to remark it fairly regularly.
Finally, I made a paper chart with goals based on the timeline in the guidelines attachment. I would include all of my new vitamins and medications on this list as well. I don't have any copies of these left, but it looked something like this:
- 7:00am: Protein Shake made with Fairlife and AM pills
- 8:00am: Water
- 9:00am: Greek Yogurt (make sure water goal is met), Lovenox shot
- 10:00am: Water
- 11:00am: Fudgepop (make sure water goal is met)
- 12:00n: Protein shake made with Fairlife and Noon pills
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