Time at home running out!

Well I only have about a week and a half before I head back to work. I go back September 28th. The time flew by quickly. I went to see my surgeon for a follow up on Monday. He said everything looked okay. I asked him to put me on a modified schedule when I return to work. For those of you who don't know the County is closed on Fridays now which means I have to work 10 hour days. I think this will be a little too much for me when I first return to work. My doc gave me 2 weeks working only 8 hour days. I think that will help me transition into the 10 hour work week. I am kind of looking forward to going back to work but then again I am afraid. I think I went back to soon during my first surgery and I think all the sitting at work made my adhesions worse. I have to remember to get up a walk a little at least every 2 hours. I am sure my boss is looking foward to me coming back.
Other than that nothing really going on in our lifes. We have not been to disneyland in forever and we miss it. I think I can do it with a lot of resting but really I have been doing really good with the pain. I just feel sore so far. None of the old pain has come back so far. I am starting to go down slowly on my nerve pain pills to see if I reall need them anymore. I think all of my pain was caused by adhesions because my surgeon found so much in there! I feel so much better but I don't want to get too excited yet. Most of my other pain didn't really start last time until maybe 2 months after my surgery...so only time will tell. I am hopeful. I am so eager to start living my life again. I want to lose wieght and be healthy, I want to be active, I want to start getting out on service more, I want to be normal again. So far so good......I just pray this lasts.

Dez

Look what I found! Old Pictures...

A trip to Magic Mountain ...................Picture of Toby

The little one is Jimmy....

It has been three weeks today since my surgery. I have been doing really well. I went to meeting on Sunday and it went ok. I go back to work Setptember 27th. It seems so far away right now but it will be here in no time. It's pretty boring at home by myself. I have been watching Lost from the first season. I am on the third season and probably will finish that today. I am going to go out to walk since I did nothing yesterday, probably to the mall or something. It is so hot outside and my car doesn't have air conditioning but I have to walk. I would rather walk at the mall than outside!! Well that is about it for now. There is nothing else going on right now so I guess thats it.
Dez

Update

Well it has been two weeks since my surgery. I am feeling a whole lot better than the first week. Still have pain and I have to take it easy so I can heal properly. Below find some pics from when Grase came to visit me and I got to feed the baby.

Dez

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

Surgery

Only hours left until my surgery. My surgery is tomorrow. My check in time is 5:30am at the Riverside Kaiser Hospital. Hopefully all goes well and I will be home Tuesday night. Thanks for all your support and prayers.
Dez

3 days until District Convention
7 days until my surgery

Ahhh its getting closer and closer

For those who don't already know, I am going to have surgery on August 11th at the Riverside Kaiser. I am sure it will be early in the morning but I won't know until the day before the surgery. I am having a laparoscopic Surgery (small incisions on my belly) to remove a dermoid cyst on my remaining ovary. It is an outpatient procedure and unless there are complications I should be going home the same day. I should be off of work for about 2-3 weeks.

Dez