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From the time that I decided to have my surgery, I waited six months! It was six months of torture! Everyone on hystersisters kept telling me "The waiting is the hardest part!" They were so right. The waiting really was the hardest part! Well, on June 25th, 2002, I had my TAH.

I was scheduled for surgery at noon, but the night before, the hospital called me and asked me to come a couple hours earlier.....no problem! Get it out of the way! Less time to think about it!

I get to the hopsital bright and early and I wait the torturous 15 minutes for them to call me back to the surgery prep area. I go back there and they hook me up to the IV and talk to me about everything that would be happening. I then ask to go to the bathroom. I come back to my bed and my wonderful doctor comes up to me and asks me how I'm doing. I tell him I'm nervous. He then takes off his surgical cap and shows me that he dyed his dark brown hair to blonde. He said "In honor of your surgery, I made myself look like you!" Ahhhhh, How sweet

Then I ask for the happy drugs. He assures me I will get them. He asks me if I'm happy I will never have a period again. I tell him yes and almost break down into tears. He gives me a smile and walks away. I ask to go to the bathroom again

They bring my husband and dad back to be with me and they just talk endlessly to each other while I go nuts waiting for my surgery! Everything else was a blur, but I think I went to the bathroom about 8 times while waiting because I was so nervous. Everyone got a good laugh at my expense!

I was told I had to wait for the anesthesiologist before I could get my happy drugs. It seemed like forever before the he came to talk to me. Once he did, I got my drugs and they wheeled me away.

Next thing I know, I'm waking up. My very first thought was "I'M ALIVE!!!!" But that quickly was replaced with the worst pain of my life! They gave me Morphine before I woke up, but it didn't work. I felt everything! I sobbed and yelled "It hurts, It hurts!!!" over and over again. They ended up giving me Demerol and that eased the pain quite a bit. I was only in agony for a few minutes. The drugs were keeping me from breathing right. Everytime I would fall asleep, I would stop breathing. I had a nurse sitting right next to me the whole time I was in recovery. She stayed with me every second to make sure I was breathing. She would wake me up everytime I fell asleep. I wanted to sleep so badly, but she wouldn't let me. I was finally breathing fine so they wheeled me up to my room. As they wheeled me out of recovery, the nurse that sat with me said bye to me. I told her thank you and her face just seemed to light up! I was very drugged and that's about all I could get out of my mouth, but it seemed to make her day. I was then wheeled right by the nursery and I couldn't help but lift my head to look through the window at the babies. To do that though, I had to put my hand on the side rail of the bed to lift my head and shoulders up. I then got "in trouble" by one of the nurses for not keeping my hands in the bed!

I get to my room and my hubby and dad come to see me. After a while I send hubby home to be with the kids. Later, more family arrives and so does my roommate. Once all visitors were gone for the night, the nurses closed the curtains to separate my roomy and I. We chatted until about 10:00 that night and then fell asleep. In the morning we chatted again, but keep in mind, we couldn't see each others faces! It turns out we lived only 10 minutes from each other and we were very close in age and both had the same amount of kids. We became fast friends. We went 24 hours without ever making eye contact!

She left the next day and my new roomy moved in. A woman that was much older than me and had no interest in talking....fine with me! The only thing is while I wanted to watch Friends on TV, she wanted to watch the news! My first roommate liked all the same shows as me, so the tv thing was a challenge with my new roommate.

The nurses at this hospital were great! They babied me! There was one nurse inparticular that took on a motherly role with me. I soaked it all up! I was miserable and in pain, so being taken care of was a nice thing....especially knowing that I would soon be going home to four kids!

The one thing that kept me in the hospital for four days was that I couldn't walk without feeling like I was going to pass out. I finally felt well enough to go home after the fourth day.

Now, here I am, one year later, facing possible surgery to have my ovaries removed. I am holding off as long as I can, but I think it is inevitable. Even though I still have ovarian pain, atleast my bleeding is gone. I would bleed about 20 days a month. I also had horrible IBS symptoms and the surgery magically cured that. So, for me, I'm doing better in some areas and worse in other areas.

I can't believe a whole year has gone by. Now I can tell anyone else that is facing this surgery that "the waiting is the hardest part!

One of the best things that came out of this surgery is that I made so many friends here at hystersisters. One sister in particular, lives close to me and we have become good friends over the last year. Her surgery was 5 days before mine. We are trying to schedule a weekend out of our busy lives to go out together to celebrate our one year anniversaries.

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