Re: To D
From: andrea (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Sun Jul 29 18:42:40 2007
Wow! That was fast! I did not think you would be up to writing on here
for a while. Glad you're doing better already. :) I guess that's how a
GOOD surgery DONE CORRECTLY should feel!!
A couple of things I would like to ask if you don't mind.....I am scared
of it hurting when I use the bathroom after surgery, especially with the
bowel-prep stuff and all that, ugh. You have not had any probs with
that? Sorry, I don't mean to be so personal, but that is one of my
biggest fears.
And, my doc keeps telling me that this is an out-patient procedure! They
charge $15,000 just to use the damn hospital room ($25,000 total), but I
don't even get to stay over night. I live on a 4th floor apartment, I
would NEVER make it up here! Do you have to approve a night's stay with
your insurance first, or does it just depend on how bad you feel after
surgery?
I remember when I was a kid, I stayed in the hospital for 3 days just
for getting my tonsils out...and NOW I am going to get ALL my insides
messed with and they're sending me home? As of now, I still don't have
anyone who can commit to taking care of me for a few days, so that
really worries me and I'm trying to get a lower insurance deductible
too. I want this done ASAP, cuz if it gets too close to the holidays, I
know I won't do it.
Talk to you soon,
--
Andrea
At Sun, 29 Jul 2007, D wrote:
>
>Hi Andrea - Thank you!! I'm still sore, but I'm doing pretty good :)
>
>The surgery was thursday afternoon - it took about two hours, and Dr.
>Cook talked with my boyfriend afterwards and said that he removed "lots"
>of endo and some adhesions, too. The adhesions were mostly on the left
>side right where I had been complaining of the pulling pain! He also did
>a cystoscopy and found a few spots that might be IC, but it didn't look
>too bad. I have some frequency with urination, but only rarely have
>pain so that's about what I expected he'd find in my bladder.
>
>I was really out of it after the surgery and didn't talk to Dr. Cook,
>but I barely remember talking to the nurse anyway - she told me they
>found endo and I was so happy I cried! I was terrified I'd come out and
>again they'd tell me they didn't find anything, so it was a huge relief
>to finally an answer - even better, I could feel the difference almost
>immediately. It's like there's something that's not there anymore, I
>think it's really gone! I already don't feel so sick and my temperature
>is normal, where I had been running low grade fevers almost daily for
>about eight months earlier. He did a uterine suspension to tip my
>retroverted uterus forward, and I think at least part of relief may be
>from that - I don't know how to explain it except that things seem to be
>sitting right somehow? He called me at the hospital Friday morning, but
>even then I was still groggy and couldn't think of questions, I just
>knew I already felt better.
>
>I have copies of the photos but I forgot to ask him about the video; I
>hope we'll view it at the post-op (this Friday) and I really want to see
>it! I can see where he removed a lot of endo/tissue from the pouch of
>Douglas/cul-de-sac area, ligaments, pelvic sidewalls especially on the
>left - the lesions were varied - there were very subtle clear flat
>lesions that could only be seen with the light shining on them just so,
>some places looked angry red layered with white fibrous tissue, there
>were flat red ones, clear blisters, little red blisters and spots, and
>at least one big nasty looking adhesion involving my sigmoid colon. He
>didn't find any endo actually on my colon, I did remember to ask him
>that, it was near it and next to it - I had a lot of bowel symptoms and
>before I started taking the pill even had blood with bowel movements
>around my period, so I guess it really can cause a lot of irritation
>that way.
>
>Comparing the new photos to my first lap (June 2006) it's obvious the
>first doctor did not know what she was looking at, and didn't get close
>enough. It definitely got worse over the year, but you can see the
>bumpy reflections and red/white areas in the 2006 pictures that have now
>been excised! I thought that first doctor was "good enough" because she
>did excision - I was terribly wrong about that. If any doctor starts
>talking to you about "microscopic" endo be very skeptical! In my
>experience that only means that they don't know what all the different
>types of endo lesions can look like.
>
>I won't really know how well the surgery worked for a few weeks, but so
>far things seem very good. I'm only taking a little more pain meds than
>before the surgery, and I don't have that horrible sick feeling -
>whoever has been standing on my guts for the past several years has
>finally gone! The hospital was very nice, it only took the nurse one try
>to get my IV in, the room was private and my boyfriend stayed on the
>sofabed - I don't know how much better it could have gone! Thanks for
>the good wishes, if you have any questions please let me know!
>
>All the best,
>
>--
>D.
>
>At Sat, 28 Jul 2007, andrea wrote:
>>
>>D, know you probably don't feel well enough to check this site out right
>>now, but when you do,
>>I just wanted to say I HOPE YOU HAVE A SPEEDY RECOVERY AND FEEL LOTS
>>BETTER REAL SOON!!!
>>
>>Hugs!!
>>
>>--
>>Andrea :)
>>
>--
>Find an endo specialist in the ERC's EndoDocs group:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndoDocs/
>
>Try an excellent endo support group:
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/erc/
>
>Info on pain management:
>http://www.painfoundation.org/
>
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