Friday, March 18, 2011

Home and then back again...

Okay lets see, went home on Weds.  finally.  I just told them I felt better because I wanted to leave so badly.  Lord I couldn't sleep there.  Between them waking me up to check blood pressure and taking blood and then the noise from the break room right beside mine, I just wanted a night in my own bed.
So all is going well at home...Thurs, Friday...spent the day with Clay and Livi.  Grocery shopping, running around getting kids.  I did have to take a nap..still taking the naps. but other then that everything was going great.  Then Saturday morning.. BAM...my stomach again is just blah.  Nausea like you wouldn't believe..the worst stink burps, they were so bad I was making myself sick. Clay called the Dr.  and they told him to keep an eye on me and if I started to run a fever take me to the emergency room.  They were worried about blocked bowels, infection that sort of thing.  So around 6 pm I start to run a fever.  Long story short, go to the ER, x-rays and CT of belly show I have a kidney stone.  A big one, that is completely blocking my left kidney.  I'm one of the lucky few who do not have any pain, just the nausea.  It did cause an infection in my kidney, so I got to spend the night in the hospital again while getting IV antibiotics.
Crazy crazy two weeks.  Healing great from the hysterectomy.  Had my 2 week check up, and I'm doing great. So far none of the nasty side effects.  Other then being tired I'm fine.  I do have some groin pain, which Dr Hines says should go away.  Now it is unpleasant.  Burns like a mofo! Seems my nerves and muscles have been cut one to many times, so there is some scar tissue..yadda yadda.  It comes out of no where and just about drops me to my knees.  Hopefully it will resolve itself soon!  Great news, pathology report came back all clear.  No cancer at all in the uterus, tubes, ovaries or the lovely mole he removed.
Had a stent put on this past Monday..another surgery.  This coming Friday I get to have the kidney stone blasted..another out patient surgery.  Then hopefully the stone will pass and the stent will be taken out, my pain will resolve itself and I will get to go back to normal.  Well as normal as you can be with out hormones..lol 

Its done, I'm glad its done.  I have lowered my chances of breast cancer by 50 percent, and have pretty much put myself in the clear for Ovarian cancer.    I have another breast biopsy on Tuesday.  Of course this is now part of my life..watching and waiting...I'm good.  I'm healthy...I'm alive and cancer free.

Monday, March 7, 2011

I want to go home!

Well I have had the hysterectomy.  Nothing to hard in that.  Once I found out that I was carrying the mutation the decision was pretty much made.  I just need the details for after.  What to expect.

We can start with what happens before. The day before surgery, you have to do a bowel prep.  Now this isn't that bad until the meds actually kick in and then your pissing out your arse.  And I mean literally pissing out your arse.  Start at 12 with 2 duclolax then at 3pm you add 32 oz of miralax to a 64 oz container of Gatorade..any flavor you like..as if that will help. :)  Drink 8oz glasses of this mix every 15 Min's until its gone.  Bet you can't guess what happens next?  Let me tell you.  As soon as you finish that last glass, and your stomach is blown up to look like your 6 moths pregnant, you run as fast as you can, and do not stop until you are sitting on your new best friend. Nothing to eat or drink after 12am that night...or the next morning  before surgery.  Sucks :)
I went in under general anesthesia.  A few hours later I was waking up in the post op room.  The twilight martini they give you before hand knocks me right out.

Leads to now.

Its Monday.  I want to go home.  The surgery went well. No complications.  I have been having issues with a low grade fever and my blood pressure being to low.  Was having horrible dizzy/nausea spells.  Thought it was the morphine drip.  Well no more morphine and its still here.  I wish it would go away, I really am so ready to go home.  The pain is bearable, the percocete gets me through for about 6 hrs.  But this feeling, the light headed, pukey feeling..its got to go. Blood pressure is back to normal, fever is gone and the yuck still stays with me.  If any of you have suffered a migraine..you know the way your stomach gets when you are in the light..that is where I am now, just want to keep a pillow over my head.
Oh and not sleeping.  I'm hoping that it is just because I'm here in the hospital.  But I haven't had a full night sleep since the Thursday night before surgery.  By 2am I'm wide awake :(

So there is my update for now.  I'll post again after I get home.  Surely the doctors can figure out what is going on.