I’m home!

May 29, 2009 at 6:08 pm | Posted in Hysterectomy | Leave a comment

Got home from the hospital yesterday.  Am doing well, I suppose. Still needing my pain pills every 6 hours, which stinks, but like Ron said, this is not the time to be “strong” it’s the time to take care of myself.  He and Daniel are doing a great job of taking care of me.  I got to sleep until 9 this morning, then had a bagel with cream cheese (I’ve been craving one since Wednesday morning) and then read a while, then had a bagel with leftover chicken, then napped from around 12:30 until 3.  Then Ron fixed dinner and Daniel and he cleaned the kitchen; Daniel loaded the dishwasher for me, too.  I’m so blessed to have these two to love me and care for me!

My mom called earlier to check on me.  I called my brother while I was in the hospital yesterday, since I had forgotten to let them know about the surgery beforehand.  Told him I’d call him in a couple of days…probably Sunday.

~ Patty

Two days to go

May 25, 2009 at 7:55 am | Posted in Busy, Busy!, Happy Birthday!, Hospital, Hysterectomy | Leave a comment

I’m almost packed and ready to go.  Ready?  I don’t know about being READY for surgery, but I’m ready to go to the hospital at least LOL

I’ve done some grocery shopping and laundry to keep up.

Tonight we’re taking Daniel out to dinner and a movie to celebrate his birthday; he wants Chinese food.  Also we’re going to see Night at the Museum, the new one.  Should be fun!

Tomorrow I have to:

  1. go to the library and return a ton of books and pick up a few about menopause
  2. get Daniel a haircut
  3. get my B-12 shot and Daniel’s allergy shot
  4. finish packing
  5. take two Dulcolax at noon
  6. start my bowel prep at 4 pm
  7. be on a liquid diet so that my bowel prep doesn’t keep me awake all night
  8. I think that’s all

And then on Wednesday we report to the hospital at 9 am.  Surgery is supposed to be at 11.  He (the gyn) said it will take 45 minutes approximately to get me hooked up to the DaVinci Robot and then two hours to do the actual surgery and then another 45 minutes to get me unhooked….four hours pretty much.  Daniel gets to spend the day with my mom, and the night, too.  Ron will pick him up on Thursday to come pick me up.  Hopefully I’ll only have to spend ONE night in the hospital (cross your fingers and toes and your eyes for me!).

~ Patty

so, four more days until surgery!

May 23, 2009 at 7:02 pm | Posted in Hospital, Hysterectomy | Leave a comment

I’m packing my overnight bag, collecting phone numbers from friends to call them and let them know that it’s over….

just need to psych myself up for the darned thing.  Saw my gynecologist on Friday and we’ve decided to go ahead and have him remove BOTH of my ovaries.  One of them is the problem, but after doing some research and learning that a big majority of women have to return to the hospital for the removal of their second ovary within a few years, I decided to just have everything removed at once.

He said he’d give me a hormone shot while I’m still in the hospital, to prevent menopausal symptoms from occurring while I’m recovering from surgery…and when I return for my 3-week post-op checkup, we’ll discuss alternatives to HRT.

I’m looking forward to the end of my cycles, that’s for sure. Not looking forward to having to deal with menopause at age 47, though.

So here I sit, looking toward the future.

Bleah.

~ Patty

Oh, boy!

May 13, 2009 at 6:52 pm | Posted in Hospital, Hysterectomy | Leave a comment

I’m scheduled for a hysterectomy on May 27.  My baby’s 10th birthday and I’ll be in the hospital.

Y’know how I’ve been having troubles monthly since like December?  I finally got in today to see an ob/gyn and my left ovary is the size of a baseball.  A baseball!  OMG!

He was thinking about ablation therapy for the bleeding issues, but once he discovered the gigantic ovary, decided that it needed to come out and since he’ll already “be in there” we may as well remove the uterus and get rid of the bleeding problem at the same time.  I’ll get to keep my right ovary, which will help stop me from flying into menopause.  Which is a good thing because I can’t take hormones, due to the TIAs that I was having in September.

Oh, boy!

Daniel and I went out after school to Taco Bell (he was craving nachos) and I told him about surgery.  He was alright with the idea, but is sad that I’ll be in the hospital on his birthday.  The three of us decided at dinner to celebrate his birthday two days earlier, on Monday the 25th.

I’ll be pretty busy on the 26th drinking 4 liters of prepping poison, plus taking Dulcolax.  Me and the bathroom are going to be close intimate friends that day and probably most of the night, too.

Oh, boy!

So what’s new with YOU?

LOL

~ Patty

Hey, it’s Tuesday!

May 12, 2009 at 7:33 pm | Posted in Supper, Twilight!, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Things are fine.  Just finished dinner (recipe called “Saucy Steaks, which are beef sirloins broiled with a butter and orange marmalade sauce) and I’m listening to the dishwasher upstairs, munching on ice (brrrrr!) and trying to catch up with my email and Amity Mama and I haven’t checked my Friends Page in like 100 years.

Finished reading ECLIPSE today.  OMG, I can NOT wait for the fourth book!  I’m on the waiting list for it and it better HURRY UP and get turned in so that I can find out what happens next with Bella and Edward!  Also I’m on the waiting list for the movie, even though some of my online girlfriends have said that it is NOT any good compared to the book, I have to have to see it!

Anyway, I’m knocking myself out over a book written for teens, isn’t that funny? LOL

~ Patty

So it’s been another long time since I’ve posted

May 7, 2009 at 7:25 pm | Posted in Work | Leave a comment

This has been a CRAZY week.  My boss has been having medical issues so she hasn’t been in at all, so I’ve been there every day for 8 hour days, plus I worked four hours Monday (my usual day off) and I’m TIRED!

I’m used to being off on Monday and Wednesday….I still have to work tomorrow (eight hours) and Saturday (four hours).

Jeepers!

Anyway, I’m still alive, I think…..

~ Patty

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