Surgery update

Surgery went well. I have 3 scope spots and 1 incision about an inch long where they took the organ out. When the doctor went out to talk to Dean when it was over, he asked him if I had been in pain the past couple days. He said no and doc said that he’s surprised I wasn’t because it was severely inflamed and chock full of stones. Ick.

I’m just a little sore, but the more I get up and go to the bathrom with my ball and chain IV pole, the better it feels.

Written Friday, november 20 but just remembered to post 24th….oops

Medical Procedure Week

The colposcopy was yesterday. Dr. S running an hour behind. Made me want to skip it even more. But the sooner it’s done, the sooner I will have the results back. She found 2 “suspicious spots” that she biopsied. Sent for more testing. Let’s pray they are just squamous cells and that’s all. The “treatment” had be squirming just talking about it-scraping off the top layer of cells from my cervix. Ay-yi-yi!

Can you say pain? I don’t remember the last one hurting this much. I was pushing my feet in the stirrups, clenching my knuckles white, and biting my tongue and saying “eeeeeek!!!!”

There was an unfortunate mirror on the wall to my right. Why? No clue. The procedure room is the one room that you should not be looking at what she’s doing down there! I had to close my right eye so I couldn’t see!!

Miles got his first dose of H1N1 yesterday. No ill effects except extra sleepy. Took an hour and a half nap from 3-4:30 and another 7-8:30. We could hardly wake him up for bath time! Still hasn’t got his 2nd dose of the seasonal because they keep running out. Don’t you think they should reserve a couple for those that need the 2nd dose only? Grrr…

Right now, we are en route to the hospital to have my gall bladder removed. Nervous Pervous. But I need it done. The last attack had me in the fetal position on the floor.

Stay tuned for anasthesia induced updates…. :0P

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Crap.

I knew I would do it unless I left myself a note and of course I forgot to leave myself a note thus forgot to do what I needed the note for….

I only pumped once at work yesterday before leaving for a plant tour of 2 of our facilities out “in the field” as we refer to it. There wasn’t enough milk  to bag, so I capped it in the bottle and put it in the fridge. When we got back  I was going to add to it with the afternoon session (especially since I missed the mid afternoon one). But when we got back, the lovely LaRay Boss Lady said we could go home early. I ran into the clinic, gathered all the pump parts, stuck the bottle in my insulated bag, and headed for home. Pumped in the comforts of my own home, washed everything and put away the milk. The note was to remind myself to bring that bottle back to work since I usually leave those here so I don’t have to cart them back and forth…

So today it’s a one-boob-at-a-time-show. UGH. Takes even longer…

On another non-booby note, check out a few pics I took of the place. (Couldn’t take any at the first plant as the supervisor dude said to turn off the phones, thus disabling my CAMERA phone.)

Me, LaRay, Mubashir sportin’ super cool hard hats

Meter Station

Machine that blows off gas while they run the “pig” through the pipe for cleaning

*Could it have been a more beautiful day yesterday?

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G is for GALL BLADDER! With a GIANT stone! (In celebration of Sesame Street’s 40th birthday)

Holy Moly. I never thought I’d have another ultrasound so soon after Miles’ birth. 2 weeks ago I had another gall bladder attack and had to visit the ER. They took images of my right kidney, pancreas, liver and gall bladder. They gave me a CD of the images – 65 to be exact! Good thing I don’t have to pay a co-pay for each one of those!

The reason I have the CD is because I took it to visit my new friend Dr. K today. Dr. K is a general surgeon/laparoscopic specialist. I am pleased to say that as of November 19th, the gall bladder will no longer be attacking me because Dr. K is attacking it! I am having surgery to have it laparoscopically removed. YAY! He wanted to do it this Thursday (it’s his surgery day) but we are leaving for Maine on Friday so I told him maybe next week. He said that was ok,  he just couldn’t do it the next Thursday….cuz it was Thanksgiving! Then he said that actually the time right after Thanksgiving is really busy for him and gb surgeries. Why? Because people tend to overeat lots of fatty foods, causing their gb’s to flare up on them. Who knew that gb’s and Turkey Day were related?

Next week is going to be KA-RAZY. Getting back in from Maine Monday, Tuesday back to work and Dean has band, Wednesday is my colposcopy (BLECH) and Thursday is gb surgery. No rest for the weary. SHEESH.

**My friend Katrinia has been moved out of ICU into a regular room. Her surviving twin, Ben, is not doing well at all. His uncle just posted on FB that he will be with Jesus soon. :0( This makes me so, so sad.

***Updated: Baby Benjamin is now flying high with his angel brother Jacob. :0(

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New Layout

Definitely like this layout much better! I was dying because I LOOOOVE my 3 column template at Blog.ger. It lets you put more crap in the sidebars. If you only have 1 sidebar, then it seems to scroll on for 4 miles! Thanks to the unfair struggle for the example!

I was updating my Braces Bunchers blogroll and clicked to read her post, saw the template and was like GOTTA have that one!

This is a test

This is a test of the emergency blogging system. This is only a test. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!