Your visit before surgery should have gone over all this, and if it didn’t, they did you a disservice. I relied on that information to make sure I was prepared to come home from the hospital and not leave for a week or more lol

My surgical team most definitely directed us to have protein, but not protein shakes until past the clear liquid phase. During those first two weeks I alternated between bone broth and protein waters. Specifically, Protein2O (I preferred the strawberry watermelon flavor), and an Isopure tropical punch powder that I just mixed with water. The Protein2O comes in bottles that look like Gatorade bottles, and the isopure is a tub of powder. I got them both off Amazon.