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Re: Just got my records...if I knew then what I know now SERIOUSLY LADIESFrom: Sabrina (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu Apr 27 14:23:12 2006
OMG I had read that they placed a stick there. I didn't know that someone actually had to stand there and hold it! Do you mean you are naked from the waist down for the whole surgery? I just assumed that you would be draped to the top of the pubic bone and then draped to the bottom of the boobs. I thought only your stomach would be showing seeing that is where the surgery is. OMG. I am the most modest person I know. I have even had two babies! I am so bad that when I went in for my annual, they had awesome new gowns that you can wrap around yourself three times. I literally did that! My ob went to do the breast exam. I am lying on the exam table and he is at my side. He says the only way that this is going to work is if I lift this up! So of course I let him examine me. I am so modest, I hate this. I don't like talking about periods and all of that stuff either which makes it so much worse when I have to call in or talk to someone about it in person. If I have to get this surgery, then I hope like heck they derobe me after I am asleep and rerobe me before I am awake. OMG OMG OMG. Guess I'll find out more on the 11th and you bet I'll be asking my dr about this if he suggests a lap! At Thu, 27 Apr 2006, Alyson wrote: > >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: >> >>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: >>> >>>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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