Update after surgery

“Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away.” ~Paul Coelho

I’ve made it past another surgery. Yesterday was a bit of a blur and I definitely wasnt in any shape to be updating anyone by phone, email or my blog…so my apologies to those of you waiting for an update…hopefully this will help. It always seem to help me a bit.

We all prayed this surgery would help the doctors discover what was causing the pain these last few months.. My doctors have been amazing to me again. We all tried to avoid surgery because we know I am good at being complicated when it comes to medical procedures…but after knowing what we know now it was inevitable. I’m glad we didn’t wait because I am not sure how much more pain I would have experienced.  As I mentioned all the pain and discomfort I had been having for months we tried and prayed that waiting out the pain and hoping the pocket of fluid showing in ultrasounds and an MRI would go away on it’s own. In the last few weeks I began feeling a lot more pain. The best I could describe it as feeling like someone was poking my stomach with needles or something sharp stabbing me in the from time to time. This pain left me feeing miserable somedays – I have a pretty high tolerance for pain so as my drill sergeants in the military said I learned to “suck it up and drive on”.

After the most recent experiences with pain we agreed for me to undergo a laparoscopy that gave the doctors a better view than what the ultrasound and MRI were showing. As nervous as going through another surgery we all know it was for the best. For the last few months I knew something wasn’t right…call it intuition if you’d like. I partly have had moments the last few months feeling like maybe all this pain was in my mind because it wasn’t going away and I wasn’t feeling any better. Once again I find myself in a position that my doctors haven’t seen anything like it. I’ve come to deem myself to be their most complicated patient once again falling in that .001%. I recall at my post partum visit one of my doctors said pain could be caused from scar tissue and if so they’d do a laparoscopy to fix the problem and that it was very rare that it’d happen. I recall shaking my head back then…we all know I win those lotteries that aren’t so great. Once again I won the not so great medical lottery.

Yesterday’s surgery took longer than expected – I was told about 2 hours. They found a lot of extra scar tissue which had to be removed. As they did they found what we were referring to as a pocket of fluid. The fluid was apparently a pretty decent size infection trapped near some scare tissue. They also removed that. The doctors were a bit surprised that I lasted this long coping with the pain caused from these issues.

We were told by everyone the day prior to surgery that it should go quick and we’d be home by around 1:30 if all went well. We didn’t leave till after seven. During recovery I had a lot of pain so they monitored me longer than the norm. I’m still recovering and coping with a lot of pain. Even with pain medicine my stomach hurts so bad. Hopefully in the coming days it’ll subside and I’ll gradually be able to get back to things.

My apologies again to those we haven’t contacted directly…with as many medical problems that have been thrown at our family the last 2 years it is still easier for me to update you all through my blog rather than calling or emailing everyone individually. Once again thank you all again for all the prayers…it’s uplifting to see just how many people truly care for me and my family.