Lap Yesterday

Celry · #1 November 29th, 2008, 05:40 AM

I had my surgery yesterday. I was surprisingly not nervous at all. My anesthesiologist was awesome, with a great bedside manner. Plus, he was super hot. I love my doctor and felt totally comfortable being in her hands. I remember the anesthesiologist giving me a "cocktail" to make me drowsy. About a minute later my doc asked if I could feel it. I tel her "oh yeah" and that's the last thing I remember until I woke up in recovery and my doc explained what she'd done and found. She gave me a very brief explanation though. She spent about 45 minutes talking to my parents and husband. DH had met her before, but my parents hadn't. They both loved her. Both of my parents were in the medical field before retiring. My mom always says that the best way to find a doctor is to talk to a nurse and find out who she'd go to. During the course of their conversation, my parents learned that an labor and delivery nurse at the hospital is leaving to go work for my doctor, and that she is going to be a patient there. They were both very impressed by that and feel like I couldn't have found a better person to help us get pregnant.

They found a very small amount of endomitriosis. Not much, but she cleaned out what they did find. She did a hysteroscopy and a D&C. I'm not bleeding much from the D&C. I think part of that is probably due to that fact that I just finished AF and my lining was probably pretty thin. I feel like my cycles have been screwyer since my miscarriage, so I think the D&C was a good idea. She gave me about 20 colored pictures she took during the surgery. They are very cool to look at. I can see my liver, intestines, colon, gallbladder, uterus, tubes, ovaries and internal pictures of my uterus and where my tube openings are into the uterus. She told my parents and hub that everything looks great and she's optimistic for us.

I spent most of yesterday laying on my couch drinking what felt like gallons of water. I was so thirsty, but was uninterested in eating. I slept off and on and was in bed by 8:30. I feel like something used my stomach as a punching bag. I would say that I'm super sore, but not in pain. I'm sure if I moved around a lot it would become painful. My shoulders hurt, but no more than they would if I swam an especially hard swim practice. My body used to feel like this when my college coaches would decide to torture us with dry land exercises. I don't plan on doing anything today, but sitting on the couch. I think my body needs to just relax. I should try to eat something too. Yesterday I had a few grapes and a couple bites of chicken soup that my mom had made.

~*Jackie*~ · #2 November 29th, 2008, 07:10 AM

I'm glad the surgery went well & I hope you start feeling better soon, Cel!!

snsgirl336 · #3 November 29th, 2008, 10:35 AM

I'm so glad to hear that everything went well! It is so great that you have a Dr who you love and trust! I hope you start to feel better soon!!!

richmond_girl · #4 November 29th, 2008, 01:17 PM

Your dr sounds great! Good doctors make all the difference. I'm glad your surgery went well. Hopefully you are one step closer to that BFP!! Thanks for the update!!

Celry · #5 November 29th, 2008, 06:23 PM

Thanks everyone. I'm still pretty sore. I have spent my entire day on the couch and I'm going completely stir crazy now. I hope that I feel well enough tomorrow to at least leave the house for a short time.