Re: Just got my records...if I knew then what I know now
From: Storm (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Apr 27 08:55:46 2006
NO!!!!!
This CAN'T be true is it???I had a 2nd Lap 3 weeks ago and did loads and
loads of research on what EXACTLY they would be doing in OR, even as to
where exactly everybody would be standing in the OR room.I even watched
video footage of an actual lap.I read into training manuals
http://www.gfmer.ch/Books/Endoscopy_book/Ch07_Training_Lap.html
and NO WHERE did it mention going anywhere near the vagina.I don't know
but that was a HUGE hang up I had.I don't know just the whole thing of
not being consious when someone was poking around down there FREAKED me
out and I was happy thinking that they didn't need to go down there.
Oh GOD, I'm sure glad I didn't discover this BEFORE my Lap cause I would
have canceled!!!Are you really sure it's procedure?Sorry to hassle you
I'm just so shocked!
At Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Alyson wrote:
>
>Rhonda,
>Try this web site: http://www.morehead.org/wellconnected/000074.htm it
>has a pretty decent diagram of the reproductive system.
>This is a web site run by the makers of Lupron (I'm not promoting it,
>the site just has some good info). There is an interactive tool showing
>locations of endo on the reproductive system. Here is the link directly
>to that page:
>http://www.endofacts.com/understanding/
>
>I actually found out about the tool in the uterus by happenstance. My
>doc and I were discussing whether or not to do a D&C and he told me that
>they would have to open my cervix anyway to put a metal rod in my uterus
>so that it can be manipulated during surgery.
>I fondly refer to it as "My Uterus on a Stick" or "Uterus-Cicle" or "The
>Corndog Effect". I have to laugh about it...I felt really horrible
>imagining which nurse got the job of standing between my parted legs
>holding a stick protruding from you know where, responding to orders "up
>and to the left a little". I mean I could have run into that person at
>the grocery store and never even known that they have seen about
>everyting there is to see of me!
>
>--
>Alyson
>
>At Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Rhonda wrote:
>>
>>So like many of you have stated I have learned that... I was pretty
>>much put in the OR opened up he looked around found endo released an
>>adhesion and closed me back up. One major thing I didn't know was that
>>when you go in for the scope they put a tool up your vagina and into the
>>uterus so that they can manipulate it while looking around the outside
>>of the uterus with the scope. Don't know if that is common knowledge to
>>you all but it's new to me, makes sense but didn't know that. Also
>>found that he lists that immediatly upon entering the opening with the
>>scope all he saw was endo. The report states that the cul de sac has
>>fluid in it and was covered in endo, the endo is noted as going up onto
>>the ureters, urethra and bladder. States ovaries have endo on them. He
>>goes back and forth calling it both stage 2 and 3. Also found that they
>>never released the pictures he took while in surgery, so now I have to
>>call and find out why they where not sent and how to get them. Anyone
>>know of a site that shows the entire anatomy of the uterus, bladder,
>>culdesac etc. I would greatly appreciate it. I can't find a good
>>picture/diagram. Hugs hugs and more hugs. Thank-You Rhonda
>
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