ENDO Messages for January, 2004: Re: Belly button question

Re: Belly button question

From: holly (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri Jan 9 17:08:36 2004

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during my first lap, doc couldn't get the needle thing through my belly button, so he resorted to open lap. and when he did that, my skin tore, so i ended up with a J for a belly button. i b****ed at him for 7 months, and when i had the second lap, he showed me at the pre-op how he was going to fix the belly button (all this time had passed, and he still hadn't told me why my belly button looked the way it did. i didn't know until i read my surgery reports what happened). he drew all over it and said he was going to excise the scar and pull the skin over to the middle. he did it. it looks like a T now. not great, but at least it's a straight line. i had a lump under my skin for a while (to the left of the belly button), but now it's shrunk down to what feels like a grain of rice under the skin.

btw, i apologized to him last week for griping about the scar for so long. i told him i finally read the surgery reports, and i feel horrible about harassing him. lol.

my belly button still stings like crazy some days. but what can you do? i'm going to get it pierced soon because i want to cover the scar. its a little long, if you ask me.

At Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Sherri wrote: >
>WHOA! I thought I was the only one with a goofy belly button. I just
>had my 6th Lap and they pretty much sewed me shut. I have a teeny tiny
>belly button now and it pulls over to the side and is all crooked...
>Let's invent stickers with 'normal' looking belly buttons printed on
>them for women like us to stick over our mis-shapen ones.. we could
>make millions!
>
>~Sherri
>
>At Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Jennifer wrote:
>>
>>The ob/gyn who did the surgery wanted to send me to a plastic surgeon to
>>fix his "mess" but I said "No thanks!"...Having that infection was SO
>>scary. I didn't even know exactly HOW serious it was until after it had
>>finally gone. He never really acted like it was a severe thing, but
>>once it was gone he told me about the plastic surgeon and about the
>>severity of the infection. He even paid my hospital bills! Too bad he
>>was a complete mess-I had to find another doctor. His wife left him and
>>his practice went down the drain. :-(
>>This was two years ago and it's still very hard and I get these little
>>infections in it now. I have a tube of antibiotics I have to use 3 or 4
>>times a year. That's why I really would rather never have anyone touch
>>it again!! LOL

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