Grab your coffee (or favorite beverage), pull up a chair and I'll tell you a story!

Good morning everyone!

First of all...thank you all so much for the wonderful well wishes while I was in the hospital. I gave my son a huge hug for keeping you in the loop for me. I am so blessed to have such a wonderful family surrounding me at home and through cyber space!

OK, raise your hand....how many of you actually thought my surgery would REALLY be an outpatient ordeal? Remember that 5% chance? Guess I was right when I said I'm usually the 1 in a million. Maybe I was given BC so all these Docs I have been dealing with could have a "first ever" in their careers! Seems like that is all we have heard, from the get go, from all of them...."you are my first patient ever.."

Here is what happened....
I was suppose to go in Tuesday to have a laprocsopy done to remove my ovaries. I had left them in when I had my hysterectomy 4 years ago. They lit up on the PET Scan I had done before my BC surgery. Since I was 100% ER+ and I was glowing, there was no choice but to remove them.

When you have a laproscopy done, they put an incision in your belly button and then two more incisions on each side above your hips, but in a little. Sorta where your ovaries should be sitting. This would require three small incisions total. So my Doc proceeds to do this procedure. Except once she got in there, she let out a very disappointed "ah,oh" and now had to make a change of game plan. (Don't worry, I wasn't awake to hear the "ah,oh" or anything else she may have said! She just told me she said this).

It turns out that we knew there would be a risk that my ovaries had adhered to my abdominal wall (which they did), but was not prepared to find that my small intestines had wrapped themselves around my ovaries, attaching themselves by the scar tissue, that seemed to be everywhere! Sigh.....now I had to have what my hubby calls a "zipper" incision. (He thinks thats what it looks like. I guess he is right with all the steri strips going across it, LOL) So now I have a very wide smiley face wearing a hat (the belly button) across my stomach.

And ouch!! Every friggin movement you make involves your abdominal muscles!! Not fair! I had a liquid diet for 4 days and get this.....gained 7 pounds!! How is this possible? Don't answer that! I'm sure it involves something about "1 in a million people will gain while maintaining a liquid diet". Argggg. Hubby did comfort me by saying it was probably all the IV's they had going that just bloated me. Yeah...I like that word, "bloated". That means eventually I should deflate here shortly. However, I have taken a liking to warm prune juice! (I can hear you....quit laughing!! I know, nobody is suppose to like prune juice).

So they finally set me free and sent me home. They also gave me 5 sheets of instructions with highlighted parts!! I am not allowed to do ANYTHING for 1 month (see Doc Nov 5) except get up and walk around....period. No lifting, bending, pushing, pulling or scooting. (Do people actually "scoot"? I thought just dogs did that?) This is going to be a long 4 weeks!! I get to wear a support...I call it a "belly bra"!! I am in a bunch of pain, but thought I would get this out while I was somewhat coherrent, before I pop my meds. They make me doze off & on constantly.

As of Friday, she had not gotten my path report back yet, but will call me ASAP when she does. She said they looked good, but we will have to wait and see. (tapping fingers....not like I'll be going anywhere, HA,HA).

So, yet another set back, but still trudging forward. By the way, ice-cream does NOT count as a clear liquid. I tried to get them to nuke it. They said the key word is "clear", not "liquid". Then I held up my lemon jello and said I couldn't see through it either! I lost. No ice-cream allowed. That first 1/2 gallon I polished off since I've been home tasted soooooo good!!!!

Hugs and smiles to everyone!!
♥Pammy