Surgery Day!!

Last week I had my surgery and might I say that was an experience! I had this surgery about four years ago and it was totally different. Having a two year old this time makes a huge difference...Ha!

I was told to arrive at 7:30am and typically that means you wait about two hours for your surgery and so that meant I would be home around lunch right???? Wrong!! We did arrive at 7:30 and had to wait for the O.R. to open and finally around 11am I was moved to the holding area before my surgery. We get there expecting to wait about ten minutes and were told we had to wait about an hour so thankfully I brought a wonderful book to read. After my third trip to the restroom I finally asked my nurse to turn down my IV. Being nervous on top of a fast dripping IV was killing me!!

After an hour they moved me into surgery and after that is a blur...Ha!! I was told the surgery went great! It took a total of three hours!! Dr. found the tumor and removed it and then she found that I had stage 3 of endometriosis and that my left fallopian tube was attached to my small intestine. Wow!! Oh and during surgery one of the machines that was used to remove the tumor had a shorted out and left a nice little burn (about four inches) on my right hip...ouch!

After surgery I was moved to the post-opt area and pretty much was sat straight up and moved to the restroom. I guess they wanted me to leave...Ha! Well that did not work out as we intended. I got so sick that they put me back to bed and gave me a shot of Phenergan...can you say See You Later!! That was the strangest feeling. I had my eyes closed and could not open them but I could hear everything that James was saying. After two hours I was finally able to go home and it was around 7pm. I had no idea it was that late in the day!!

Needless to say I came home and crashed for the night. The next day was a challenge. Having Farrah was tougher than I thought. Not being able to hold her or pick her up was so hard. Poor Farrah didn't understand either. She saw me trying to get in bed and was in pain and she just freaked out. She stared crying and just wanted her momma and I could not hold her so I told James to put her in bed with me and she settled down and kept asking "Momma K?" Such a sweetie!!

So I've had a couple of really good days and a couple of I've over done it days but for the most part I'm feeling really good! Thank you to all of you who have been praying for us and just encouraging us! We see my Dr. next week and we are expecting to be able to start fertility treatments very soon!! I can't wait to see what happens next!