Yet another roadblock

Hopefully this post will not be on the rambling end this time.

This surgery wasn't too bad pain wise.  I was pleasantly pleased that I was able to go to work without too much pain.  I guess anything after my last knee surgery seems so easy.

Okay fast forward to this week for my post op appointment.  I should of known that I wasn't going to just walk in there and get to see the pictures from the surgery and get a shot and go on my merry way.  Nothing has been that easy with trying to become pregnant.

Here is a summary of how things went:

-The cyst on my right ovary was the size of an orange and the one on my left side was just a simple cyst and he drained it for me.  

-I have level 3 endometriosis out of 4 levels. Level 4 is when you need a hysterectomy because it has overtaken your reproductive system.  I also have gun powder endometriosis.  I know it sounds crazy right?

-During surgery they discovered that I have a split uterus which means I have another surgery before we even attempt to become pregnant.

-When I do get that shot it won't be 3 months of the menopause but any where from 3 to 6 months long.

-I am getting referred to a doctor in San Diego.

Although I will be seeing a doctor who is specialized in infertility I am not looking forward the 10 hr drive to San Diego and back.  I just want a doctor to tell us that everything looks great and we can finally move on.  I should be hearing back sometime next week when we will start seeing our new doctor.

Until then I think I will be purchasing some mederma to help get these scars to disappear.

-Kate    

Post Surgery Day 1

Well yesterday was a very long and frustrating day.  I was scheduled to be at the hospital at 7AM Monday morning.  I knew I was in for an interesting day when I walked up to check in at the front desk and I was greeted by irritated hospital staff.  Last time I had surgery my experience was wonderful minus the pain I was in after surgery.  Everyone was amazing and super helpful.  I had the polar opposite yesterday.

My first issue was when my one of my corpsman was unable to get my temp via ear thermometer  My ear holes are smaller than I suppose a regular person.  So he decided instead of pushing it in at an angle he would get the thermometer that you scan across the patients forehead.  I have no issue with that thermometer at all but I do have a problem when you don't use it correctly lol!  He just placed it on my head.  So who knows if he got a proper reading or not.

My second issue was corpsman number 2.  He was in charge of taking blood samples from me.  He seemed very nervous so Preston asked him how long he has been in and told us 3yrs.  This made me feel better because I had a horrible experience in Pensacola when a corpsman in training did blood work on me and used the wrong size needle and I shot blood across the room.  So getting blood work done freaks me out at times.  Okay back on track....so he does the tourniquet on my left arm and struggles to tie it and once he does my arm is filled with a ton of pressure and my arm is turning purple.  So first try he said my vein rolled so no luck there.  I started giving Preston the look like im going to freak out.  2nd try he does the same thing struggles to tie a tourniquet and my arm is throbbing again and then he misses my vein completely.  At this point I lost it and started crying.  Preston got up to comfort me because this was the last thing I wanted before surgery.  At this point the nurse steps up and goes to my left arm and finds a vein and successfully gets the needle in but then was ready and had the corpsman hand her the viles one at a time.  While she is getting my blood work the ER nurse comes in to see what is taking so long because they were expecting met to be in the waiting area by 8 AM. Then my nurse notices that the corpsman labeled my viles wrong so they had to fix them.

After I was taken out of my room and taken back to the waiting area things were much better and I had amazing staff who were joking with me about silly things on Facebook.  Once I was transfered to the OR I was asked what music I would like to listen to which I laughed and told them it didn't matter because I would be out.  They found out that I was from Ohio so they choose Country music! :)

After a few hrs after surgery Dr. Ta came and talked to Preston and I about the surgery and everything that he discovered.  He was able to take out both cysts one on the right and one on the left.  I was informed that I have level 3 endometriosis which he thinks may be the reason why we have been so unsuccessful with trying to become pregnant.  So the next step will start next week.  My Dr. will give me an injection (don't remember the name of it) that will chemically induce menopause for 3 months.  The point of that is to try to stop and or shrink the endometriosis.  Supposedly women who have done this have had this treatment were able to become pregnant.  We will still do the IUI instead of trying naturally and taking the risk of giving the endometriosis a chance to grow back.

So today I am feeling groggy and sore.  I did not sleep too well last night not because I was in horrible pain but I was just uncomfortable all night.  I think I catch people off guard when I talk to them on the phone because I had a breathing tube in my throat yesterday.  Also sorry if I am rambling on in this post because I am on pain meds.

Tomorrow I will go back to work so we will see how that goes.  I cannot lift anything heavier than 20 pounds for at least two weeks.  Hopefully my managers will help me out at the front counter the rest of this week until the 3:30 shift comes in.  I forgot to mention why yesterday was a long day besides the obvious.  I was at the hospital from 7-4:30.  I didn't think we would be there all day.

I will continue to update our blog next week once I have my post op appointment.

-Kate