The surgery went well today. I was checked in at 7. Then the 2nd to go in of the day. 1st was a sweet 15 year old girl having her nail bed removed for cancer. It won't grow back. She needs a skin graft now. Cancer sucks.
There were 8 different things to accomplish today, a 9th added in that she did find the cervix, was able to get inside the uterus and did the d&c, pap and biopsy and also removed several benign looking polyps that were unexpected as they didn't show on mri, ct, pet or ultrasound. I have had a growth in a very unfortunate spot on the remaining tiny bit of labia left after the labia removal done many years ago. It was removed today as well. Yay. So there are stitches externally.
I don't have any pain internally although considerably more blood than I was expecting. Poor Eric came running when I called from the bathroom needing supplies. The poor guy is going through a lot taking care of me. I'm a lot. So extra. Sigh. Anyways...
I can already feel the stitches and I suspect that will be the bulk of discomfort. Right now it feels like it's pulling and starting to sting.
Is this all too much information? Too bad. Women should be allowed to talk about women's health. It's largely mistreated and we have to complain too loud to get help. Soap box lecture of the day.
I was awakened at 9:30 and allowed to sleep for another 15 minutes while they unhooked everything. I did have a breathing tube. So my throat is raspy and feels thick. There were 8 people in the surgery. Naked in front of 8 people. Oy. My stress was high. Blood pressure went up to 126/79, down to 110/69 when I left. Sugars leaped up to 14! The anesthesiologist gave me insulin and they are dropping finally. Also caused by stress. I thought I had medical trauma before, these back to back surgeries are definitely adding to the trauma base.
The little note from Dr. Dennie said everything looked good, all went well and she will call with biopsy results in a few weeks.
While I was waiting to go into surgery I heard nurses talking about Dr Zafarulla and I thought it must be about me, what were the odds someone else there would have the same family Dr. He apparently called Eric too. He was flustered. Obviously finally realizing there have been issues ;) and he's supposed to be the center point of contact. I'll call Monday and make an appointment. Eric needs to go back for his next biopsy mole removal anyways. And what we both need is another trip to Victoria for an appointment!
Check out this home ownership pride from our locals.
Kai won the whole school closest guess contest. He was so excited that his resource room teachers could hear him screaming "I won! I won!" from down the hall. He was offered a different prize but he said it was ok because he wanted to share with the family. So sweet. We're letting him have four with each snack. He's delighted.
In other, other distraction news. I told Eric if I was stage 3 or 4 that I would use Onyx on the trails. Then we joked that we should get me a little beater to take out. When we picked up Oscar from our mechanic friend he asked why Onyx doesn't go out. I said "Princess but I think I need a 2 door I can take out". He grinned and said follow me.
Haha. It's been sitting for two years, it's a mess. It needs a lot of beautification. No rust. He has done the mechanical things needed. It starts up beautifully. It is ready to run trails tomorrow. It's too tall for me, I can't get in. It's too dirty to even contemplate getting in. Haha. I thought they were both joking. The idea is growing on me. Eric is excited about the project. It has the motor he would prefer for Oscar. He is already putting things in the Amazon cart. It has new tires and a new soft top in the back. I've only driven Oscar twice on the trails and I did love it. This one is 35 years old. Sought after in general. We would have zero problem selling it if I don't love wheeling. My other current thought is that it would be fabulously cool for Luk in a couple years. Luk can't see that yet. I suggested we could share, he looked horrified.
Now....this is how great distractions are for me. Instead of fussing with panic about being knocked out again Eric and I discussed paint colors, themes and names instead on the way to tje hospital this morning.
Right now it is spray bombed black. We want to keep it spray bombed so that it is easily touched up since it will get marked up. If we actually pretty it up too much then I'd hate using it.
1st idea paint blue camo and name her Clever Girl for a Blue from Jurassic theme. The YJ was the Jeep used in the movie.
Paint her red, black trim, name it Minnie.
Paint it red name him Elmo.
Paint it black, put blue retro stripes and the colorectal blue ribbon and name it Sapphire.
Eric's idea's:
Leave it black, paint fern leaves all along the bottom and keep the Blue/Jurassic theme minus the camo.
Leave it black, add the dragon scales and eyes like Onyx and name it Baby.
I have to admit although I was leaning to going blue and calling her Sapphire I thought Onyx having a baby mini me is the cutest idea of all.
Feel free to add more for me to ponder.
It's not a done deal. It has no papers. Eric went today to figure out how to get it registered. I'm ignoring that until Monday.
