Surgery in the morning!

[42_42_42]

I have to be at hospital tomorrow morning at 6:30, surgery is at 7:30. The plan is to go in laproscopically, with one of the incisions being extended to 10cm to remove the turmor. Should be out of surgery by 9-9:30 and go home sometime late tomorrow evening. I'll post to let everyone know I'm okay hopefully Sat or Sun.

Well-wishes and prayers please.

[BookstoreEscapee]

Good luck!

[Ree]

Good luck.

Keep us posted.

[DGoddessChardonnay]

Sending good thoughts and prayers your way for tomorrow.

[Amina516]

Good Luck!!!

[Cazzi]

More good luck from me too

[Mikkel]

And even more good luck from me. You do have someone to take care of you when you get home, right? In some ways I think the keyhole operations hurt more in the short run, the air they blow in to make room pull at a lot of muscles in the abdomen.

[JustaCashier]

Sending good wishes. Hope this went well.

Mike

[trailerparkmedic]

Hope you're healing fast!

[42_42_42]

Back home from hospital

The surgery unfortunatley did not go as planned. The tumor had grown to the size of a grapefruit and so the surgeon had to open me up like w/ a cesearan instead of the laproscopic procedure. As a result, I was in hospital until Sunday afternoon with a lovely morphine pump and they sent me home with a nice big bottle of vicodin. Today is the first day I've been non-doped up enough to be somewhat coherent. My mom is here taking good care of me. Thank you so much for your prayers and positive thoughts. It really helps to know you've go so many people behind you. I don't know how much I'll be posting in the next few weeks, but I'll try to at least keep y'all updated as to my progress.

[MaggieTheCat]

That sucks! Sorry to hear they had to open you up the old fashioned way, but I'm glad you're home and on the mend now! Take it slow and easy...when I had my laproscopic surgery done, a lot of people were like, "Oh yeah, I was up and about a couple days after my surgery, you'll be back to work fulltime in a week!" Yeah...BS. Took me a lot longer than that to heal. So don't strain yourself. Let your mom and whoever else is with you take care of things for a while!

[AccountingDrone]

Welcome home, welcome back and rest up! Don't push it, post when you feel up to it!

[Becks]

*lots of gentle hugs*

[Rapscallion]

They did get it out, though, right?

Rapscallion

[42_42_42]

Yup. My left ovary and the tumor it had become are no more.

I am now officially ovaryless. Fortunately, the hormone patch on my hip is keeping from becoming menopausal.

But, she was able to save my uterus...so we've got invitro w/ donor eggs still as a viable option for offspring.

Had my staples out today and was told the official pathology report was benign. So's that's all to the good.