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TAH/BSO - My Nightmare

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I have suffered with severe pain from endometriosis for over 7 years now. It was finally going to come to an end on Friday, May 4th, I was so excited!

FRIDAY
I was scheduled for a 3:00 hyst, and had to be there by 1:30. I was not nervous- I was a pro at surgeries- I have had 8 laperoscopies- surely this would not be too bad. After arriving and doing all of the insurance info., I was called back immediately.
The anesthesiologist comes in, my doctor comes in- we're set! I tell my husband I love him and off we go. I move onto the cold steel operating table, my doctor and I talking about how good this was going to be for me all the while. All of a sudden, I'm gone.

I wake up in excruciating pain. The nurse gives me a shot of demerol- no relief- 4 shots later, they moved me to my room on the maternity ward and give me the morphine machine. My husband is told to push it every 10 minutes for me. He does and I get no relief. The pain is so bad that I am crying and thrashing. They give me toradol too. This helps, but I'm so nausious. They give me phergren...aaahhh....now I'm out- but not long enough. They come in to take blood that evening. They can only get a very small amount. I have a high fever as well.

That night is full of morphine drip, shots, toradol shots, and phenergren. The pain is unbearable. The nausia persists.

SATURDAY
The morning is full of meds again. Still have a high fever. They come to get blood again, but they can't get any. They try what seems to be every vein I have and still nothing comes. I am hemorraging. They take me for the second time to the OR, only this time, there is no joking. I am screaming with the slightest movement- and even without movement from the pain. I still don't know exactly how they get the anesthesia in me, but they did- and I'm out again.

I wake up much the same as I did from yesterday. They take me now to a room on the surgical floor- they had to insert an IV in my jugular vein in mt neck- it was the only place they could get one. Thank goodness they did it while I was under! I continue the morphine machine. Click, click, click- no relief. Still on the phergren-this is what lets me sleep for short time periods. Now they are also giving me toradol and demerol shots. The doctor says they stopped the bleeding, which is where a lot of the pain and nausea was coming from. They gave me a blood transfusion because I lost so much blood. They found that there is something wrong with my blood- and I'm what they would call borderline hemopheliac. I almost died he tells them.....

I lose this whole day....except that evening when I wake up and get sick! That is not a good thing to do after surgery! The night passes with my husband sleeping in a wooden chair by my bedside. I wake only when the meds allow me to and then need more.

SUNDAY
I lose most of today as well. I remember waking briefly and seeing my husband minister and parents.I feel a little better, but my catheter is killing me. I have my husband check it. My vagina is swelled and blue....it is beyond recognition. The IV in my neck is killing me too. As if I don't have enough. Late that evening, they remove the catheter...only because I thought it hurt more than the walk to the bathroom would....fever is slowly going down.

MONDAY
I feel terrible, but better than I have. I am switched to oral pain meds. Same old, same old.

It continues like this until I beg the doctor to send me home on Tuesday.....and he finally agrees my fever is down and my blood count has stayed the same the last 2 days.

After getting home on Tuesday and feeling horrible, I begin having a fever again. Thursday, I must go into the office! How horrible a trip that was- we live an hour and a half away. He says to watch the fever and gives me an order for new blood work- they are unable to get blood.

At 3 wks, I felt good. I got up and over did it though. Now at 5 wks, I feel horrible again, but the Lord is with me and in that I find comfort.

I feel as if God gave me a second chance....I almost died....there is a reason that He let me live....my purpose is to seek that purpose for which He so gracefully put me here.

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