Recovery

It's been three days since surgery and I am able to somewhat see straight today. I hate general anesthesia. It makes your world blurry, hazy for a few days and all you can do is lay around and watch tv. It gets better each day, although, I am very tired today and will have to nap. Yesterday, I couldn't nap until late and was woken up by Shane about 30 minutes later. Today, I will tell the boys not to wake me if I am sleeping. Yeah, right!

So the night before surgery was bad. For some odd reason, I can not digest the bowel prep. It just sits there until I throw it up and then I panic that they won't do my surgery the next day. Luckily, the plumbing started working around 5am (9 or so hours later than it should have). We had to wait a little while for my surgery to began as I was second in line for my doctor that day. It wasn't too bad. They let Shane come sit with me in the pre-op room for a little while and he got to enjoy me getting my Demerol shots. They also have full wireless there so Shane was able to work all day.

Recovery was not fun. I had trouble getting a breathing pattern established, not unusual for me and I had the shakes real bad...nothing more Demerol won't help. We finally left the hospital after 6pm as we waited for traffic to die down. I actually felt no pain at all until about 10pm that night. Since then, I hurt when I move but laying down isn't so bad.

What they found was more endometriosis and adhesions. My uterus is fine on the inside but pretty ugly on the outside. It was attached to my bladder and they left it that way. My fallopian tubes were attached to my pelvic wall and my right ovary was attached to my uterus...these they unattached. I also had endo on my large bowel..this is a new spot for it to grow. I think and pray that this is what has caused me so much misery the last few months and will be better now.

My doctor said it is time for my uterus to come out. And, when that happens they will take my ovaries, tubes, etc, too. I have to admit that I can't wait. First, though, we have to transfer our remaining two embryos. And before that can happen, I have to check my thryoid. Not having enough thyroid hormone when you are pregnant can be very bad to the baby. I am quite sure that some of the problems Jacob has (tics and anxiety) is because I was hypothyroid when I was pregnant with him and didn't know it.

Prayer Requests: pray for quick recovery so I can be a mom and wife this week. Pray that my thyroid will be ok enough to transfer the embryos and that God's will be done with the embryos. Pray that this will all happen quite fast so that I can have the hysterectomy within the next few months.