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Lap #3 scheduled, it sounds like a doozie (I'm really scared of this one!)From: Christen99 (anonymous@obgyn.net)Thu May 29 23:09:33 2008
I have had increasing issues with my bowels the last couple of years, and I'm sick of it. I finally decided the endo was taking control again, so I felt the need to whack it back into shape and made the treck to my friendly RE. He unfortunately doesn't do surgery anymore, he just does IVF etc. so he referred me on with a warm hug (he's the nicest man). I met the new doctor, and while he is highly regarded he just isn't warm and fuzzy. He doesn't do any of the initial exams, he has his fellows do them and he does the actual surgery along with an additional surgeon. With my first two surgeries, endo was not detected on my uterus or ovaries just all over my bowels. This new doctor has recommended that I have my appendix removed, as well as a pre-sacral neurectomy, along with the usual roto rooter of the endo and scar tissue. While the doctor was doing my pelvic, she felt "something" on my uterus and I sure as heck felt alot of "SOMETHING" and was ready to send my foot flying to get her away from me. Next up, the ultrasound...and she didn't even buy me dinner and a drink first! She was scanning my bits, and decided that she didn't like the view with the scanner so she had the nurse bring in a better ultrasound machine and she proceeded to take lots of measurements and print out pictures galore. After she was done, she said that there was some sort of growth on the outside of my uterus and assured me it was probably just some sort of fiberous cyst but they would take a closer look during surgery and most likely remove the growth. I of course went into the "it's cancer" thought process and didn't sleep well for a few days before deciding to take some Tylenol PM so I could get a good night's rest. Because my surgery is less than 2 weeks away, I'm fairly restricted on what they will allow. The last two surgeries didn't seem that big a deal, at least not too huge but then again I didn't have 2 kiddos and I wasn't a stay home mom either. My dh and I live in an area without family support and most of my friends are very busy with their own children or work out of the home. I don't have any help with my youngest, and he's a piston to say the least. My mom is flying in and will arrive 2 days before surgery, but she doesn't drive much and the boys overwhelm her due to health problems so it should be "interesting". Dh is taking a couple of days off, and luckily I'm having surgery on a Thursday so he'll be home over the weekend. They are keeping me in the hospital overnight, and I never thought I'd say I was relieved to have a bit of peace and quiet. I'm afraid of the pain, I'm afraid of the "thing" on my uterus, I'm afraid of having a bowel resection (which has been discussed) and I'm afraid of staying with the kids afterwards. This is just so much stress! I'm trying to control what I can control and let what I can't control go, so I'm concentrating on getting some freezer meals ready to help my dh with cooking, and I'm cleaning the house from stem to stern along with a garage sale this weekend. I need to get my eyebrows waxed so I don't frighten the anesthesiologist with my bushy brows, and my lip waxed so I don't get bunked up with a man after surgery if for some reason they run out of private rooms. I think my rant is over, but I'm sure I'll come up with more.
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