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Re: Just got my records...if I knew then what I know now SERIOUSLY LADIES
From: Alyson (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Thu Apr 27 12:57:46 2006
I don't know that it would be necessary to cancel...I mean you aren't
exactly covered up even if they don't have the stick in there. You have
to get a catheter, etc. Surgery isn't modest, no matter what you are
having done.
I just found the idea funny that there was a specific person assigned to
hold a stick in my hoo hoo. I mean talk about getting the raw end. You
could be up there in the surgical action, instead you are holding a
uterus on a stick. Bummer.
At Thu, 27 Apr 2006, anonymous@obgyn.net wrote:
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>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!!!!!
>>
>>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:
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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:
>>>>
>>>>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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