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I live in a really tiny town with a crappy insurance, I dont' really have any choices available to vet. On the other hand, the hospital was fantastic, the surgeon has been lovely, and there was not a long waiting list in the schedule to get it done. You're right about the pain, it was worse than giving birth to Clover, and I always thought that would the absolute maximum top limit on my pain scale. Oh, how wrong I was. The onset was rather sudden and abrupt. I will save that website though as I'm planning to start looking for work again once I recover and Nikki has been looking to change jobs so we may have more options in the future. So they didn't put me on any diet restrictiosn after the surgery other than avoid really spicy and fatty foods for at least four days, so I cautiously added dairy back in to see what would happen and...nothing! Slowly reverting to my normal eating habits, pleased to report no side effects and I'm digesting. The only issue I seem to be having is I think my mothers weird medical legacy is striking again, I have developed a red itchy rash everywhere that seems to have started at all the adhesive sites (from the iv and the incision bandages) that might indicate I'm developing her allergy to adhesives. Yay. And today I barefuly feel the incisions, and am able to move around mostly normally, just have to watch the big one where they actually pulled it out through, it still doesn't like too much moving or bending. I thought Dash would be hard, but for us it's been easy to stick too. The main hurdles we faced at the start was learning what all the herbs and spices did to replace the cheap easy salt flavor, and giving up the convenience of buying foods mostly cooked and ready to go like sauces and frozen things. Once I got into the rhythm of cooking everything from scratch so I could control the salt content, the combination of newly formed habits and Nikki's overwhelming "I LOVE THIS FOOD" response made it my go to. I'm an attention whore, and I eat up the reaction from him at mealtime. I think every diet is both hard and easy, and the trick is just finding that one that works with each of us personally and medically. I really love not being on the blood pressure medication anymore!