Post Op
So it's the day after and I am done with surgery.
The day before I couldn't eat any solid food. It was horrendous. I could have done it, but then around 1:30 I had to start antibiotics. They made my stomach so incredibly nauseated and then I started floating. Too much liquids in my stomach. Around 5:00 pm I had to start a bowel cleanse. Where you drink 2 liters of a solution that cleans you out. It didn't work for me. I drank about 4 8oz glasses and then I had to lay down. My head hurt, everything hurt. I sat my alarm for 8pm so I could take the final round of antibiotics but I slept through it. I woke up after midnight. THEN I started to go to the bathroom. But not even that much and I couldn't drink any more solution because I couldn't have any liquids after midnight. I just crossed my fingers.
They brought me back around noon and started the IV. I chatted with the doc and I think the positive vibes were flowing. She said it would take about an hour. I woke up 2.5 hours later and was wondering why it was so late. My mom was back there with me. She told me that once they got in there, the doctor found I had endometriosis, a pretty severe case. I would have thought that would have been detectable on the MRI. Anyway, so she had to scrape all of that off of my uterus. Which is why it took so much longer and why I might be a lot more sore than expected.
I'm not as sore as I feared. I am sore, don't get me wrong. It's hard to stand up straight sometimes. But I am up and walking around. I'm eating a little bit. My appetite isn't that great. The gas is EVIL. They had to fill my stomach up to see I suppose. The reabsorption process is loads of fun. Not.
I hate that I have endometriosis but I also feel a bit validated. Just waiting on labs from the tumor. I have a feeling that all of my symptoms are gonna be from the Endo.
The day before I couldn't eat any solid food. It was horrendous. I could have done it, but then around 1:30 I had to start antibiotics. They made my stomach so incredibly nauseated and then I started floating. Too much liquids in my stomach. Around 5:00 pm I had to start a bowel cleanse. Where you drink 2 liters of a solution that cleans you out. It didn't work for me. I drank about 4 8oz glasses and then I had to lay down. My head hurt, everything hurt. I sat my alarm for 8pm so I could take the final round of antibiotics but I slept through it. I woke up after midnight. THEN I started to go to the bathroom. But not even that much and I couldn't drink any more solution because I couldn't have any liquids after midnight. I just crossed my fingers.
They brought me back around noon and started the IV. I chatted with the doc and I think the positive vibes were flowing. She said it would take about an hour. I woke up 2.5 hours later and was wondering why it was so late. My mom was back there with me. She told me that once they got in there, the doctor found I had endometriosis, a pretty severe case. I would have thought that would have been detectable on the MRI. Anyway, so she had to scrape all of that off of my uterus. Which is why it took so much longer and why I might be a lot more sore than expected.
I'm not as sore as I feared. I am sore, don't get me wrong. It's hard to stand up straight sometimes. But I am up and walking around. I'm eating a little bit. My appetite isn't that great. The gas is EVIL. They had to fill my stomach up to see I suppose. The reabsorption process is loads of fun. Not.
I hate that I have endometriosis but I also feel a bit validated. Just waiting on labs from the tumor. I have a feeling that all of my symptoms are gonna be from the Endo.