ER Visit Last Night

Me

[MacMattico]

So I had laproscopic surgery on 1/15 and all went well. The surgeon repaired some “erosions” (I guess not full ulcers?) on my stomach and fixed a hernia behind my bellybutton. He also thought I shouldn't be having stabbing pains for those reasons so he searched around all my “upper organs” as I call them and said everything looked good. But I am very sore. I hate narcotics so I've only taken them 3 times (they told me to take them every 4 hours— no can do. I'd make a terrible drug addict!) I have to take anti- nausea meds ten minutes before any narcotic or I get sick. But at least they allow me to take the pain killers when I need to sleep or am really uncomfortable.

I have the internal stitches and than the glue stuff on the 5 incisions. My daughter wanted to see and then flipped out!

The stabbing pains are gone so I think that issue has been addressed. And the 4mm lesion on my kidney— he doesn't think it's cancerous and could Just be part of my anatomy and we'll just keep an eye on it. But if it were cancerous he said getting an ulcer and hernia could have saved my life because usually people don't know they have kidney lesions until they're huge and the cancer has advanced.

So I just need to rest up and heal. I swear I'm so swollen you'd think I was 7 months pregnant if you ran into me! The surgeon was excellent and nurses very nice. I didn't even spend the night because I convinced them I'd get a lot more healing rest at home, which was true. They let me go at 9:00pm from a morning surgery.

I can't help but think if I hadn't had the insurance I have that pays 100% and went to the ER twice and said something has to be done NOW I'd still be lingering in pain for months. As it was they had me scheduled just to see the surgeon on the 23rd and I said that wasn't acceptable! So now the 23rd is my follow up. When Obamacare kicks in fully, I hope I stay healthy for a long time! Thanks to everyone that had a kind word and a prayer, esp. CatherineofAragon!