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so, my butt and backare hurting so just a quick update. surgery went fine. where they thought they were taking out a 4-7 inch uterus, they wound up with something along the lines of 23 inches. the big bad fibroid that was causing the most concern that was estimated at a softball or grapefruit size, well that was extremly oversized also, something along the lines of a small watermelon and 6 pounds. All the other ones were in the expected range. Needless to say, when i came out of sugery feeling like i had given birth to a baby, the Dr said the next day it was because i litterally did have the size of a 9 month pregnancy with twins. The pros, my stomach is now completely flat and there were able to save the one overy since i was reacting badly to the homrone replacement therapy even before surgery. i hated that bump that was there, and after someone commented on it in the bikini pic i became even more self aware of it. yuck. well its gone now, but the skin and muscle around everything is now limp and saggy. So, i am wearing special underwear while they wait for my bladder and intestines to drop in the place my distended uterus was and will do the tummy tuck to tighten the muscles and skin in Janauary. Yeah for me, most of the stretch marks will be gone and he will build me a new belly button too. As for thursedays surgery, only three incisions, one left, one right and one right through the belly button. And thank god for dermabond, i think the stiches would have driving me crazy. i checked out friday, a couple days earlier than expected and am writing now from school. i was expected to take 5 weeks off, but i figure as long as i can walk a couple feet from the taxi or bus to the door and i don't feel THAT bad i am going to go. So far so good, but i am still in a bit of a post sugery high since i am so excited with the results.
note to Kells (liri)and whoever else called before here (see below) thank you sooooo much for calling me at the hospital. the nurse told me i had 4 calls that i took BEFORE she called but she is the first one i remember. i totally mean, i don't remember a single one, so if you were one of those callers and i have not called you back to thank you, please give me a ring or stop by. i am not being rude, but i frankly was completely out of it. *lol* Kells said a couple days later i sounded 310% better from the first day, that i sounded so weak. Blah, i hate being called weak, but i guess this time i have a bit of an excuse. IN any case, thank ya'll who called and sent the pretty flowers and what not :)
last but not least, even in my hunched over medicated funny walking state this morning, a girl that i go to school with is wanting to set up a date with her brother who i met briefly last week. *ponders* seeing as how Sam and i are "just friends" and he "really needs me in a hundred ways, but needs me as a friend most of all" (grrrrr code words for he was in Vegas with his partners wife and sister in law who he sleeps with every time he pulls in and doesn't want to feel guilty about it) i just might do it. Assuming he doesn't mind me being wacked out on darvocets *lol* just kidding. i am going to wait a few weeks. Besides the fact that i want to be able to stand up straight, i want to be able to laugh without worrying about popping my seams (dermabond can only hold so much) and well, to put it bluntly, 19 pounds came out of me a couple days ago and my stomach is completely falt. my clothes do not fit me correctly anymore. (there is one of the cons)Even now with the swelling to make up some of the space that i had to fill the pants before they just fall off. Ah well, i would rather have this problem of clothes than the problem i had before.
okay it is hurting worse so i am going to head off. will update later on this week if i am still in school.
note to Kells (liri)and whoever else called before here (see below) thank you sooooo much for calling me at the hospital. the nurse told me i had 4 calls that i took BEFORE she called but she is the first one i remember. i totally mean, i don't remember a single one, so if you were one of those callers and i have not called you back to thank you, please give me a ring or stop by. i am not being rude, but i frankly was completely out of it. *lol* Kells said a couple days later i sounded 310% better from the first day, that i sounded so weak. Blah, i hate being called weak, but i guess this time i have a bit of an excuse. IN any case, thank ya'll who called and sent the pretty flowers and what not :)
last but not least, even in my hunched over medicated funny walking state this morning, a girl that i go to school with is wanting to set up a date with her brother who i met briefly last week. *ponders* seeing as how Sam and i are "just friends" and he "really needs me in a hundred ways, but needs me as a friend most of all" (grrrrr code words for he was in Vegas with his partners wife and sister in law who he sleeps with every time he pulls in and doesn't want to feel guilty about it) i just might do it. Assuming he doesn't mind me being wacked out on darvocets *lol* just kidding. i am going to wait a few weeks. Besides the fact that i want to be able to stand up straight, i want to be able to laugh without worrying about popping my seams (dermabond can only hold so much) and well, to put it bluntly, 19 pounds came out of me a couple days ago and my stomach is completely falt. my clothes do not fit me correctly anymore. (there is one of the cons)Even now with the swelling to make up some of the space that i had to fill the pants before they just fall off. Ah well, i would rather have this problem of clothes than the problem i had before.
okay it is hurting worse so i am going to head off. will update later on this week if i am still in school.