Surgery

So here is what happened when I went in for an Outpatient Surgery on Tuesday morning: My Doc put a camera through my belly button and was suprised to find tons of adhesions. Since he couldnt see very well he had to do the full incision (laparatomy, same as last surgery). I woke up in the recovery room and right away felt pain in my pelvic area. I reached down and felt and to my suprise I had a bandage...thats when I knew they did the full incision. The first thing I asked when I woke up was "did they take my ovary?" The nurse replied with a no and I said "thank God". After that I was in a lot of pain due to the fact they did not have me on morphine for some reason. I finally got it along with a abdominal binder (girdle) and I felt better. Since there were no rooms available in the hospital I was in the recovery room for hours. Finally I asked to see Karson and I found out what truly happened to me. Karson told me the part about having to open me up because of adhesions. I was suprised to find that I had no cyst in my remaining ovary, which was the whole reason I had the surgery. They did find loads of adhesions. Additionally my ovary is stuck to my sigmoid colon (the last part of the colon) and they left it because they would have to either remove it completly or possibly nick a blood vessel. So my Doctor removed alot of adhesions. I mean it was thick in there! I felt very vindicated since I suspected adhesions from the very beginning of my pain. I just hope they don't come back. Thats the bad part, there is always the chance they will come back. They did put a mesh over everything to try to prevent more adhesions from forming.
I got home from the hospital today. I did not have much pain while in the hospital probably due to the fact I am on some pills that block the pain. I will be off for six weeks maybe more if my Doctor feels I need it. My mom and little brother are staying with me for another week. My mom is a big help. I do have two extra incisions, one in my belly button and one about a few inches from my belly button from where they tried to do the surgery the laparascopic way. So far everyone is suprised how I am this time. Thats what happens when you take nerve blocking pills!!!
Anyways I can't sit very long so I got to go back to bed. Thanks for all the prayers. Thanks to Erica King who came all the way down from San Diego to stay a few days for my surgery. Thanks to Jim who was there as the Hospital Liason member to explain all the blood issues. Thanks to Cheri who was also there during my surgery. Thanks to all my brothers, who all called me by the way. Thanks to Grase who was the FIRST to call after my surgery was over. Thanks to my dad who came later the day of my surgery. Thanks to Keri who was my support, I know will always be, before, during and after my surgery. Thanks to my mom and Quint for staying with us to help out!
Thanks to everyone else who prayed for me.
Dez