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The week it’s been.
So it hasn’t been a very good week. On Monday, I went to the specialist at the hospital (I had waited for this appointment since October) to see about pain that’s been worsening over the last year. There was a medical student and so I had two exams (blech) and after everything was finished, the doctor decided to schedule surgery for a diagnostic laparoscpy. The presumptive diagnosis is endometriosis, but he’s got to have a poke around to see if that can be confirmed. If there is endometriosis that he can see, he’ll try to remove it at the same time.
I was expecting that there might be surgery – I was not surprised. And yet, I was. I think it hit when I signed the consent form and saw that he’d written in ‘possible transfusion’ as one of the risks. And I knew that was a risk – he’d explained it all very well. I had to put the date and the time on the form, which seemed awfully official.
So it was weird and a bit stressful and scary. To top it off, I slept funny, I think, and the muscles in the my shoulders got all wrenched and went into spasm. And I had quite a lot of pain after the exam, plus the pain that sent me to the doctor in the first place…so I’ve been alternately chilled and tired and then overheated and nauseous. Not my best week ever.
Still. I went and had a haircut on Friday, and then watched Mongolian Death Worm with friends. It’s a truly awful movie, but it was so bad that watching it with friends made it a very good movie.
Tonight? Dungeons and Dragons, if all goes well. I’m taking my heating pad.
7 Responses to “The week it’s been.”
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Grad school is done. Now reading whatever the heck I want.
Really hoping you feel better and that the laparoscpy helps!
Oh, also? Sepegal.
Sepegal for sure.
I had to google Sepegal. Good plan.
Sorry to hear that you continue to be medically interesting! Endometriosis is no fun.
I had this procedure about 18 years ago to deal with endometriosis. Overall it was a very positive thing. The only things that were difficult were I was extremely sick and vomiting from the anesthetic for about 18 hours after. Apparently that’s not normal so you may not have that.
The only other thing was that when the gas is leaving your body it travels up your trunk and you get some pretty spectacular aching in your shoulders as it tries to escape. But that too was over in a day or so. Overall, it was good and it did help. :)
Oh, and Sepegal (doing the secret hand signal now).
I had almost as much fun reading you guys’ tweet during the movie as you had watching it.
I had the diagnostic laparoscopy, too. My doc told me to stay supine for 24 hours to avoid the shoulder pain; that worked a treat. The best treatment for endometriosis, according my doc, is to get pregnant. Unfortunately, endometriosis prevents one from getting pregnant. so I took male hormones for six months to simulate a pregnancy. THAT was a trip and a half. But it worked.
Best of luck!