{"id":1006,"date":"2011-05-31T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=1006"},"modified":"2011-06-06T00:39:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T04:39:04","slug":"update-re-hospital-and-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/update-re-hospital-and-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Update (re: Hospital and Surgery)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First, sorry for all the typos on the last post. Typing half asleep on my iPod is rough. Second, thanks for all the thoughts and well-wishes. They really mean a lot. Third, it’s easiest to post here (which also crossposts to my my livejournal<\/a>) from various sources, especially remotely, so I don’t know how often I can make updates but this is the best place to check first. Also, someone on a message board wanted to send a card which is sweet. Anyone is welcome to share my post office box with anyone needing an address for me (M. Turner PO BOX 1484 Elfers, FL 34680 USA) <\/p>\n

Now, some updates.<\/p>\n

OB\/GYN doc admitted me around 5am Monday. Met with his partner in the group around 1pm. She was really nice and told me they were going to discharge me because the pain was under control with the painkillers and I’d be more comfortable at home for the next few days waiting on the surgery. Got discharged yesterday afternoon but slept most of the evening. Only got up briefly to check my email and such and eat a little.<\/p>\n

This morning I called the Dr’s office to schedule my pre-op appointment. (I actually tried Monday when I got home like the Dr said but they were closed for Memorial Day.) I’m waiting to for them to call me back. I’m worried because when I called the first question was, “what insurance do you have?” and of course, I said I didn’t. She put me on hold for like 5 minutes and said they’d call me back. Now I’m afraid they won’t even let me schedule the surgery. It’s one thing to go into the ER and get treated, it’s another to schedule major surgery. Honestly, it’s been such a crazy few days I just didn’t think about it. Now I’m worried I shouldn’t have discharged. I don’t know. I’m waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n

Right now I’m exhausted. I slept for a few hours yesterday afternoon\/evening and I went to bed around 11am and slept through about 9am but I’m still just so worn out. I couldn’t get my Rx yesterday because they accidentally wrote the date for today (5\/31\/11) but I’ve been taking 800mg of OTC Motrin on the Nurse’s advice to tide me over. I guess the Rx version is easier on the stomach but not much I could do. Love’s getting me my Rx now. It’s amazing that it helps as well as it does. Especially since they gave me two doses of morphine (!!!!) in the hospital and that didn’t even help as much. It helped take the edge off but not as well. I guess the Dr says that it’s the type of pain I’m dealing with that morphine isn’t really good for and that it’s even more proof (in addition to the CAT scan and two ultrasounds) that this is the source of the pain.<\/p>\n

My stomach is also upset right now – probably for a host of reasons from the contrast they gave me, to the large quantities of meds I’ve taken in the last 36 hours, to of course stress. It’s really bubbling and painful right now but it’s still less pain than the uterine pain that’s for sure. I’m just tired and worn out and stressed and scared and now I’m not sure what’s going to happen because I need to hear back from the Dr’s office just to know if they’ll allow me to schedule the surgery in the first place.<\/p>\n

I did some research on the hysterectomy and it’s definitely scary. I don’t know all the details but I do know he wants to do it Laparoscopically which would involve going through my belly button plus three other small incisions. It’s easier externally for healing but the same internal healing. The dr’s partner I met with yesterday said 4-6 weeks heal time. I will keep my ovaries so no change in my hormones and no early menopause. They could only visualize one ovary (the other is obscured by the fibroids\/cysts) and there is some worry it may have twisted but that’s a small chance. If so, it will have to be removed because it will have “died” from lack of bloodflow. Like I said, that’s just a possible worry but they don’t think that’s occurred. My uterus is the size of a woman who’s 4 months pregnant because of the sheer size of the fibroids and cysts.<\/strong> (Isn’t that just lovely?)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’ll know more when\/if I can get my pre-op appointment. I’m just trying to remember all the info that’s been given to me so far. I’m very scared and it’s major surgery and I just don’t know what to say really. I’ll close up here but if\/when I can, I’ll update again. Thank you all for your support. It means so much to me.<\/p>\n

edit to add: I also gave my good friend, annaonthemoon, access to post. Not sure how often I can update her or here but it made sense to have at least one other person have access to write an entry if need be.<\/i><\/p>\n

Hysterectomy Fund<\/p>\n
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First, sorry for all the typos on the last post. Typing half asleep on my iPod is rough. Second, thanks for all the thoughts and well-wishes. They really mean a lot. Third, it’s easiest to post here (which also crossposts to my my livejournal) from various sources, especially remotely, so I don’t know how often…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,50,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-hysterectomy","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions\/1041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}