ENDO Messages for October, 2003: Re: Aprehention about my third Lap

Re: Aprehention about my third Lap

From: Jennifer (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Oct 10 16:04:00 2003

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At Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Courtney wrote: >Hi Courtney,

I just had my second, and I had the same feeling, maybe nothing is really there and it is only in my head or it is something else entirely. And preparing for the possibility he would need to remove some of my female organs was stressful. There was both active endo and adhesions, and my organs had meshed together. Trust yourself, the time between now and surgery will be tough, the anticipation, just wanting it over so you know. Make yourself as strong as possible, and set yourself up for a long recovery in case it is longer than you expect. At a minimum there will likely be adhesions & scar tissue.... which create lots of pain... And yes, this condition can be a real trial of patience & humor...Good luck, >Well, I'm scheduled for my third lap on October 27th. This may sound
>silly but my biggest fear is that I will wake up from surgery and my
>docs will say "well Courtney, we didn't find anything". On my two
>previous laps, they've found endometriosis, large polyps and a huge
>number of other things but every time I go in for one, I start to doubt
>that they will discover anything. The unknown aspect to what they are
>going to find is more frightening than if htey said, hey it's a tumor
>and we need to go in a remove it. I start to feel kind of nuts. These
>next two weeks until the surgery are going to make me really stressed I
>think. The longer I have to think about it, the more I wonder what will
>happen post surgery. Anyone else been through this? I hate this wait
>and see what happens aspect of this disease.
>
>--
>Thanks for listening,
>Courtney
>

--
Jennifer

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