LSH Pre-Op today :) Sounds Great!!!

I am finally home from my pre-op appt, after the vampire took an outragous amount of blood. I just love this doctor , and am at this moment feeling very positive about my procedure. I learned that there was an option ofr pain management that is new, but I believe I am going to try. Apparently the anastesiologsit can do a spinal to administer meds, you can still walk after surgery, put this aleviates the need for a PCA pump, and controls the worst pain, and last after you leave the facility, so you go home with a rx for Toradol (not that strong). This means that there is total pain control!!!!! Plus, per the docs instructions I will be able to be up and around as soon as the catheter is out so I can walk, he said the more walking the better, he has found that the patients that walk more post-op recover faster.

The down side is the fleets cocktail. . Of course, it is clear liquds, jello, etc the day prior to the procedure, the fleets at 1:00 along with a large bottle of Gatoraid (to keep up my potasium), along with any other liquid, so my guess is I will move the TV to the powder room so I can watch it while I sit on the throne.

While I am still a tiny bit anxious, I am extremely excited about the pain control, not that I am a whimp, but I just do not want to suffer like I did after my gallbladder. Soooo.... maybe it will be ok!!!

Annie

Hi
I just had a LSH & removed left ovary/ tube on 10-27 and have done very well. My Dr. left my cervix and my right ovary I also have had endro for many years. I also have Pelvic congestion syndrome. ( Vericose Veins in the Pelvis) Dr. took them out wrapped around ovary and uterus. Do you also have IBS alot of women on here that have endro also have IBS...just wondering??
I have been doing very well sometime I have to remind myself I had this done. But alittle pain here and there lets you know. I stopped taking pain meds. on day 4 and started taking tylenol. The pain I had for so many years is gone. I can hardly believe it. I was bleeding from April until the day of Surgery I also took Lupron (2 month shots )for 4 months. I was bleeding right after surgery and that really scared me, no one told me it would be so much when I got up to use the bathroom for the first time. We called the nurse. Alot of people say they just spot or don't bleed at all. I've just been bleeding for so long I won't feel like I'm okay until it stops all the way. Well anyway....its down to spotting now..but now gone yet. I did see the Dr. at one week he did a internal said cervix is still healing and I will be fine soon.

That is a big part of feeling at least a little at ease with what you are having to go thru, I believe...

I couldnt stand to be 'awake' during my procedure...I cant imaging laying there for an hour or more while Im being 'cut' on, whether Im feeling it or not...so I am scheduled to take my turn w/ a general...I hope this is a good decision...

I hope that your visit to the castle is as easy as humanly possible...I cant wait to read your castle story...look for mine, which I will post after my Nov. 10th surgery...just as soon as I can...

Just a foot note...

I have IBS as well & I was prescribed Zelnorm...It works wonders for me...does anyone else take it?? How is it working out for ya?

Annie.....Im on the sidelines with my Pom-Poms.....however I wont jump for another week or so if thats OK with you

Enjoy that Happy Hour Cocktail....::snicker::

Hope you get those meds BEFORE surgery. Its not so much that you may need them as it is having to stand in line at the Pharmacy holdin your pumpkin. ( I named mine "Punkin")

I went to the mailbox today and got a few days worth of mail.....I started wondering if it exceeded my weight limitations..,was ALOT. I started to walk to the pool about 50 yards away and the sky fell out....started pouring....so I waddled back to the elevator and hid in bed while it rained all day. I'll try again tomorrow......I miss the fresh air. Cant wait to lay there on the lounge chair for a while.

Brusin...

I will still have a general anesthesia administered, but the pain meds will be delivered via the spinal/epidural. This new way of administering the pain meds allows for total pain control, as well as reducing the liklihood that you will become constipated due to the oral pain meds or a PCA/Morphine pump. You could not pay me to be awake for this!! I will however take the instant gratification on the the pain medication.


Feisty... Sorry to hear about the rain. Whe ahve had rain amd mugginess here, who has ever heard of 80 degree weather in November?!?

Glad to hear that you are out and walking, was there anyone cute by the pool??? Has your swelly belly gone down??
Cheers to you on the cocktail to! I am taking 1/2 day off on the 13th, I need to at least go in and collect my paycheck and show the Dr.'s wife what to do while I am out so I do not come back to a total mess, and since we are on call this week and over the weekend, we will have double the emergency patients, which means double work for me. I will get over it and I swear I am not going to sit at home for a week worrying about stuff getting done.

Maybe you can get out and sit by the pool tomorrow!

Annie

Well, well, well.....we wouldn't want ya runnin' around like you were after the gallbladder surgery now would we? I kinda think it's funny, the thought of ya sittin' there on the "thrown". Do ya think animals will understand when ya can't run there to 'em? Probably not, but heck; they don't understand eachother! Chasing eachother around like they do! HA!!!!
Anywho...... Can I get one of those spinal doflachies? I think that that sounds the most promising of anything about your visit today! I wish that they had had that as an option when I had my surgery! But, then again, it probably wouldn't have worked either! Go figure!
At lease the doc is planning on being able to continue laproscopically and who knows, maybe he can get those keloids?! You know, hopeful thinking here! And prehaps less time in that not so wonderful hospital if ya know what I mean? We both know that you will start feeling so much better once you are at home in your own bed and with your stuff!
Go ahead and get that Fleet and that Gatorade! The BIG one! Man are you gonna have to pee!!!! Hee, hee, hee!
Anyway, you should know who this is by now!
Have a day!