Discharged from hospital and back home!

I am running a day behind on updates because I did not have the energy, nor was I alert enough, to type yesterday. We are now back home in San Marcos and I have been ordered rest. I am not complaining about the rest one bit!

We got to the hospital at 6 AM yesterday morning and they took me straight into the pre-surgery waiting area. I had already taken a Xanax to help calm me before they started the IV so I was doing pretty good at that point. Next thing I knew, two hours had passed, we had a prayer and the nurses took me one direction and the family the opposite direction. I don't remember anything else until about 12:30-1:00 when they had moved me out of the OR, out of the recovery room, and into the day surgery room. The nurses had a hard time waking me up after the surgery so they called Jordan into the recovery room to try and help them wake me up. Once we got into the day surgery room, I remember a LOT of pain, they gave me morphine, and they let two family members in at a time (so family was rotating turns, except for Jordan). The nurses had expected me to be discharged around 3-4 on Thursday. We were far from discharging at that point. I was in and out for the next 2-3 hours and ended up in an overnight patient room where Jordan and I stayed the night. I was only able to walk from the bed to the wheelchair at that point so going home was not an option. My blood pressure was really low, so the nurses came in several times throughout the night to keep checking on my BP and to give me more pain meds. Other than check ups and pain meds, we both slept pretty good. Poor Jordan, I had to have asked him the same questions about 5 times each. This morning showed great improvement. I was able to walk to the bathroom alone (in my room), got to eat a biscuit and have a glass of real milk :) Then Dr. Jemelka came in to talk with us this morning. We were supposed to have a follow up appointment with her this morning, but that didn't work out due to staying over night. The appointment has been postponed for a couple of weeks.

The surgery ended up taking right around 3 hours. She found that my ovaries were 2x-3x the size they should be, so she did the ovarian wedge resection to make the ovaries a normal functioning size. She also took cultures from my uterus due to concerns with the inflammation.We will have the results of that in a couple of weeks. She found that one of my fallopian tubes was blocked, so she cleared that one out. Lastly, she found three "sections" of endometriosis. She removed the endo. with a laser and "sewed" the areas back together when she was finished. I ended up having 5 incisions in my stomach. The stomach area is very very weak and tender now. It's amazing to find how much of your body movement relies on and uses your stomach muscles.

I am getting a little break from the diet for the next 1-2 weeks, but then she wants me back on it for 6 months. She will then reevaluate the situation.

We are so thankful that the surgery went smoothly and so thankful for your prayers!