ENDO Messages for October, 2006: Re: I'm back from Lap

Re: I'm back from Lap

From: Ainslie (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon Oct 9 15:58:20 2006

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Just wanted you to know I am thinking about you and hope you and hope you feel better soon! At Mon, 9 Oct 2006, Sabrina wrote: >
>Let's say that I have the best dr in the world. Now I know why I go to
>him. They didn't find implants from endometriosis. However, he did
>find a bunch of adhesions on the left side that had attached my bowel,
>fallopian tube, and peritoneum wall together. He separated the
>adhesions and said he did a sweep five times throughout the pelvic
>cavity. He said he wasn't sure why my pain has all been right sided but
>it could be that the adhesions on the left (this is where everything was
>stuck together) caused pulling and caused the stabbing pain on the
>right. He also aspirated the left ovarian cyst and said everything
>looked great.
>
>Now here is the wierd part... I have never had a pelvic surgery like
>that (a D&C only) and I have never had any sexually transmitted diseases
>or pelvic infections like PID. These adhesions were thin indicating
>that they were new. Probably formed after I had Sara he said in the
>last year and were just going to get worse. After my dr left, and the
>nurse came in (because before my surgery the nurse said that endo causes
>everything to be stuck together) I asked her if it was possible that
>these were impants and they went to adhesions. She said yes. SO while
>my dr didn't see active impants I did have adhesions.
>
>So then when my dr was there I said to him, so I wasn 't crazy. He said
>no. Pretty much the procedure was standard. Got to the hospital. They
>put me in the triage room. Big room with 4 beds. I was like 3rd in
>line. He did a csection first, then a tubal, then me, then a D&C.
>Almost had to strangle the anesthiaologist because he wanted to give ME
>the tubal. It was the girl across from me. He comes up to me and says
>so you are here for a tubal ligation?? I said WHAT, um no way. I'm
>keeping ALL of my parts today! So all of the nurses and my dr thought
>that was funny except MY nurse. She was like what they don't teach them
>their left from their right in med school? She had told him the other
>patient was there for the tubal, I was the lap. My dr came in right
>after this. I told him I am NOT getting a tubal so make sure he has the
>right patient. He laughed and said no we are not swapping.
>
>They wheeled me down to the OR and my friend Stacy was working the PACU
>(recovery). She comes out and says WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE??????? So I
>told her. She instantly became my nurse. She was there when I woke up
>afterwards in the or. Pretty much they put a mask on my face, I took
>three breaths and was out. They also gave me something in the iv
>beforehand and made me feel like I was drunk. When I woke up I felt
>extremely nauseaus and had some pain so they gave me a painkiller. I
>got a double dose of reglan and another dose of Zofran for the nausea.
>Turned out later my blood sugar was really low and that was why I was so
>sick. I don't have incisions, I have 2 puncture marks. Stacy stayed
>with me and went all the way back up to the fourth floor for awhile.
>Before I went into surgery, Stacy and I were talking about the kids. My
>dr was sitting in the PACU waiting for them to get me set up listening
>to us.
>
>Anyway they must have said something about the tubal thing in the OR
>because my friend said they were talking about it. By the way the
>anesthiolgist apologized profusely for the mistake in words. Afterwards,
>my dr came in and talked with me for about 10 minutes and he had already
>talked to my dh while I was in recovery. I liked that he came and
>talked with me. My dr had also talked with my friend (she was my nurse)
>telling me what he had found so she could tell me what he found as soon
>as I woke up. Stacy was like you weren't crazy, he did find something.
>
>So that's it. I was very jealous of the d&c lady as she was sitting up
>laughing and talking and eating popciscles and I wanted to puke very
>badly. I still have Zofran left from the last month that I was pregnant
>with Sara and I am taking that. It expires in a month. Oh and I DID
>have to get a catheter. I had to pee again when I came down to the OR
>but the dr had already given me a sedative and I didn't get to go. So I
>had to be catherized. Bummer.

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