The first three days back at work went better than I feared but worse than I hoped, recovery-wise. (Work is fine. I picked a great week to come back.) I did okay in the mornings, but my abdomen started hurting by noon, so I ended up taking three halves of a pain pill each day to cover afternoon, evening, and night ( Read more... )

Good, fear-relieving gyn appointment today. Doc says my lingering pain is just "surgical bed pain" because they did a lot of cutting and stitching in that area and it's just going to be sore for a while. I got more drugs and another week off work; now I'm to go back on July 1st. (This makes for a two-day week, since everyone including me will be ( Read more... )

I'm hooooooooome! I have to follow up with the kidney people this week to be sure my labs still trend in the right direction, but other than that I'm free as a bird. Really hoping this is all behind me and I will have no more complications from any of these surgeries or treatments or whatever.

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I haven't been posting because I haven't had the energy, but in short, my medical saga continues. Three days ago (two? Four? Time runs together here) I was diagnosed with something called acute kidney injury. In other words, my kidneys were overwhelmed by one of the drugs I'd been getting, probably one of the IV antibiotics, and I have to stay in ( Read more... )

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I go down for surgery in a few more hours. Maybe this is for the best, as there are too many things it could possibly be, and I want to know. The doctors want to know why my blood counts keep going down so fast, too. Something is in there bleeding away.

(Story of my life, right?)

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Thanks to everyone for your comments on my last post. I'm on a tiny iPad keyboard right now so it's hard to respond individually, but I appreciate them ( Read more... )

If you guessed "admitted to the hospital overnight for IV drugs for an infection no one yet knows the specifics of," you win a prize.

Goat sacrifices will begin immediately.

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I swear to god, I am going to murder my right ovary if this cyst doesn't go away pronto ( Read more... )

( No post-op recovery is complete without an ER visit, or, how my uterus reached from BEYOND THE GRAVE to torment me some more )