Bye bye septum

It’s gone.

The endometriosis turned out to be level 4 out of 4. It’s gone too. But it left 4 cuts in my belly. Much more than the doctor had imagined. He said he was very surprised that my endometriosis was so advanced considering I didn’t have symptons and I could get pregnant. He said I was lucky it never got to my tubes.

I woke up from the surgery and I was feeling fine and a bit sleepy. Nothing strange. The nurse gave me some fruit juice and I kept it down. She waited around 10-20 minutes and then she brought me some blueberry muffins. I ate the muffins. Fine. 30 minutes later I was feeling really sick. And I stayed that way all day long. I was the first patient to have surgery and the last one to leave the hospital, at about 5 PM. Totally sucked.

The nurse said it was because my surgery took much longer than expected (because of the endometriosis) so I ended up needing way more anesthesia than they had initially thought.

I finally walked out to the car with my husband and we went to the drive-thru pharmacy inside the hospital campus to get the drugs I would need to take for the next couple of days. I called my mom to say that the surgery went well and 5 minutes into the conversation I puked. Many times. Basically everything the nurse gave me to eat during the day. Luckily I had a bag for that purpose in my hand and I reacted fast enough to puke inside of the bag and not make a mess of myself or the car.

We went back to the surgery building to tell the nurse I had puked and my doctor was walking out at that exact time. He saw me and came to the car to see if I was OK, and then gave me a prescription for the nausea.

We finally got home about 6:30 PM and I could barely walk. My bellybuttom was SO sore, I couldn’t believe it. I got to the couch and just stayed there, useless. My friends came to see me and cooked some light dinner, it was very nice of them.

Since then I have just been laying on the couch all day long and drinking lots of fluids. The nausea persisted until Monday and I am sooo glad that I got the nausea medicine on my way out of the hospital. Today is Tuesday and I guess I will get back to work tomorrow. Not sure how I am going to be able to sit up all day long but we’ll see.

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