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Re: Just got my records...if I knew then what I know now SERIOUSLY LADIES
From: anonymous@obgyn.net
Thu Apr 27 10:12:20 2006
Your surgeons, OR nurses, etc. are medical professionals...to them a
vagina is no different from your stomach, arm, leg or ear.
At Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Storm wrote:
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>NO!!!!!
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>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.
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>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:
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>>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:
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>>>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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