Saturday, April 25, 2009
Suprise! You’re having surgery again!
So I promised to blog about what happened when I was feeling better. Instead, I’m blogging about it because I’m bored out of my mind and can’t sleep anymore today. I’ll try to give you the story without getting too much into the details.
As many of you know, I had surgery a year ago to remove a large ovarian cyst. During surgery, they found another cyst on the other ovary but decided not to remove it at that time. My surgeon explained that it would most likely go away on its own and they didn’t want to risk complications by working on both at the same time. Over the past year, I’ve had periodic aches and at one point (sparing you the details) thought that the cyst was gone.
Thursday night, I had some pain in that area during Tae Kwon Do class, but it went away and didn’t worry about it. All day Friday I had what I thought were cramps, but I wasn’t worried about it. It was unusual that when I took ibuprofen in the evening it didn’t really work, but I just decided to sleep it off. I woke up at around 12:30am with some of the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life (FYI: I’ve had a c-section, gall stones, gall bladder removal, and two miscarriages which were all painful).
Troy drove me to the ER where I spent the next 5 hours in extreme pain while the doctors tried to figure out what was wrong with me. I was given morphine multiple times and it didn’t have any effect. Eventually, I was given Dilaudid which was wonderful and made the pain bearable. The cat-scan showed that I had a large cyst on my left ovary and the doctors thought it probably had twisted and cut off the blood supply to the ovary. I wend to surgery this morning and they removed the cyst and ovary.