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| December, 2003 |
| December 2003: Please excuse any typos, it's 3am and I'm working a rough draft...I'll fix this up soon. Being at risk to lose my health insurence on January 1st 2004, I decided to go ahead and have one more laperoscopy before it was too late. I had been fighting ovarian cysts since about Thanksgiving, and the pain after the last surgery in April never really subsided much. I knew there was a problem, but really didn't want to go in for another surgery. I came home to Oregon for Christmas and made my normal appointment with my doctor. I expected him to find another cyst resolving on my ovary, but the ultrasound showed nothing. We discussed my options and decided to go in and take a look because I would no longer have health insurence very soon. We schedualed the surgery just a couple days after my 25th birthday. The surgery went rather well, it was fast and easy. My doctor found two areas of adhesions exactly where I told him the pain was. He wasn't too surpised to find adhesions, but he was happy to inform my family that things looked better than he had ever seen them (despite the two adhesions he removed). My tummy was pumped with the sloshy fluid to keep inflamation down, and I was sent home with a few days worth of predisone (sp?) Recovery would have been smooth, but I had a reaction to the redisone and I puffed up like a balloon and felt like my head would explode. I made a trip to emergency quick care on new years eve, and was advised to stop taking the predisone. I felt much better once that was out of my system. This surgery made me feel wonderful! I've been pain free for three and a half months. Only now and I starting to feel some pain return slowly. |