Post Lap Details

I'm coherent enough to do a more detailed post op blog post!

I had to be at the hospital at noon. I wasn't doing too bad--I had to stop eating at midnight and I get really cranky if I don't eat regularly.

The nurse takes me back to the pre op room and gets me set up with the IV, and then I ask her when the surgery time will be. I was then informed that my doctor was called away to deliver a baby before she got to OR, so it was going to be a while. I then asked for pain meds cause I just ran out of my Vicodin the night before, so they tracked down the anesthesiologist so I could talk to her and then they could drug me up. And boy did they, that stuff was awesome! My dad and I found the Twins game on tv and we watched that til it was time to head back to the OR.


The last time I had a lap in town was a few years ago, and I had the same OR nurse. Why do I know this? Because she graduated a year ahead of me in high school, lol. Crazy, man.

I woke up and immediately asked if they found endo. They did.

Now back up a moment. When this pain started up again, I called my specialist, and he said there was only a 5% chance that the pain was caused by endo.

If I had money, I would have totally bought a lottery ticket.

Here are the pics, sorry for quality but the scanner isn't hooked up so I had to take a pic of the pic.


The snot looking stuff is adhesions.

This is my ovary with endo.

But yeah, my endo has returned.

There is NO cure for endo. I saw one of the best doctors in the US (twice!), had my endo excised (which is the best treatment for endo), but yeah, it still came back. I will probably be dealing with this until I hit natural menopause.

With the removal of my uterus, tho, my adenomyosis was cured. So now I'm only fighting a battle on one front, rather than two. Which, as the history buff in me points out, works out a lot better.

I'm still in shock. This was NOT supposed to happen. But it is.

And like my friend Jenny reminded me, it's the devil I know. And my friends have been just awesome. Letting me vent, keeping me hopeful (that's you Jenn!), making me laugh, giving me advice (Jen) and letting me ask them questions as I am taking a crash course to relearn some of this stuff (I had to ask Sara about how often to change pads for sanitary reasons cause I had totally forgotten, lol).

I started the birth control pills yesterday. I'm doing alright in recovery, taking it easy, and when I don't, Alex reminds me that I should be (after breakfast today she plopped on my lap and isn't going to move, lol).

So yeah, things are going okay around here. Still in shock but also dealing with things. The secret is to keep trying.