I went in for my pelvic surgery yesterday, thinking it was going to be out-patient. That morning they even said I’d be in the recovery room for 1-3 hours. For some reason, they decided to keep me overnight, so we had to scramble and have nanny Sue stay the night with Maria and Rosie stayed with me in the hospital–none of us with jammies or toothbrush or anything. Kind of annoying. As it turns out, I’m really glad I stayed in the hospital with a morphine drip because I was in pretty wicked pain and w/o the morphine, I hate to think how I would have felt.
They found no endometriosis, but took lots of samples for biopsy, only found one spot of scar tissue, which they removed. The primary thing he did was cut some nerve that goes to my uterus, so if my primary problem is pelvic pain from cramps, then I shouldn’t be able to feel them anymore. Downside is I wouldn’t feel contractions if I got pregnant, but since I’ll be 50 in October, that shouldn’t be an issue. My sister was pretty excited about them doing that. I don’t know what I am…. All I know is the bowel prep was much worse than I remember it the past 4 or 5 times I’ve had surgery for my pelvic pain, and I’m in a lot of post-surgery pain. I have 5 incisions, which look big to me, and a very swollen belly. I got no sleep last night because everytime I nodded off, I breathe so shallow that the apnea alarms would go off waking me & Rosanne up. They gave Rosanne earplugs, but I didn’t use any; then at 2am I had a mini-nervous breakdown because I couldn’t sleep and I was in so much pain, so they gave me a percocet on top of the morphine and oxygen through a canula, and that seemed to help a bit.
It’s going to be hard not to lift Maria for at least 2 weeks. I sure wish Manolis was here, but with Rosie here for a week and my friend, Monica, for another week, and Sue and Andy most days, it should work out. It’s just a bit more complicated with sweet Maria around….. All I can say is thank goodness it’s over and I sure hope it worked….