Friday, July 4, 2014

Recovery

     So I have been having severe ovarian pain for a good couple of months now. I went to the doctor and they did an ultrasound but it didn't show anything, so they suggested doing laproscopic surgery just to see what all is going on and to try to figure out what is causing the pain. After some consideration, I said yes.
     I had to be at the hospital at 5:15 yesterday morning and then the surgery was at 7:15. The time flew by fast which made me even more nervous. I only got to see my family for a couple of minutes before they took me into the surgery room. My husband wanted to be there so I told him he could. 
     They got me onto the actual surgery table and put me on some "Happy IV medicine" to calm me down and drowse me out a bit. They gave me three to five doses of that and then gave me the mask to breathe in for the anesthetic. I counted to ten twice because Ai didn't think it was working. Needless to say, it did. 
     I felt like I wasn't asleep for hardly at all but I woke up pretty fast they said and was more alert than most patients are. Apparently they did not find anything wrong or what could be causing my ovarian pain, but they did see some scar tissue that they got out and might help. But they told me that I am to take it extremely easy for two weeks so no bending over and no heavy lifting of any sort. My boss is giving me until Tuesday so I get four days to recover enough to be able to go back to work.
     In some ways I feel like it was worthless. I am now in unnecessary pain since they didn't find anything. I wish they would have found at least something wrong so they could try to correct it and make me feel better than nothing at all. But i know that I will make it through this with everyone's help so I am trying to stay as positive as posssible. But for the time being, I am mainly trying to catch up on sleep. 
     I must admit that my husband has been taking absolutely wonderful care of me. He has tended to my every need, helped me get up to the bathroom, slept beside me in case I needed to get up in the middle of the night or needed something. He has been absolutely wonderful. He has never been like this and I am so thankful for him right now even with being separated. He has gone above and beyond to help me through this. I never expected this to come from him. So I'm very thankful and humbled by this right now.
     Oh, by the way, Happy Independence Day to everyone! Stay safe at the fairs and watching fireworks. Watch some good ones for me. Remember all of our military on this most special of days. We wouldn't be here without them.

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