Going under the knife

Waiting to go in for surgery.

Laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and D&C complete.  It amazes me how one minute I can be lying on an operating table, fully alert, waiting for my surgeon, and the next minute I find myself waking up in recovery.  Unfortunately for Scout, it was a much longer day.  We left home at 11am, arrived at 12.30pm, surgery was delayed till 2pm, came out at 3pm and then spent 4 hours in recovery before leaving at 7pm and getting home by 8.45pm.  My recovery was slow.  I had alot of pain and difficulty breathing when I first came out of theatre but thankfully some ventilin and pain killers had me settled within half an hour.  But it took me ages to wake up properly, mostly because of the pain medication.  Scout was wonderful, sitting with me, reassuring me, renewing our parking ticket every two hours, getting my script filled, sorting out child care for the girls.  I am so lucky to have such a wonderful wife :). Dr P came in to see us at some point just to see how i was and let us know how it all went.  Amazingly I still remember most of this conversation despite being half out of it.  The outcome ... 1.  The catheter issue is apparently the result of a bent cervix with a ? laid back uterus.  2.  I had endometriosis at the top of my uterus which I'm assuming she removed.  3.  One of my tubes is partially blocked reducing my ability to conceive and increasing my risk of an ectopic pregnancy.  Hmmm.  So she said we can still try IUI but I'll need a local anesthetic for the procedure.  If that doesn't work then we have to go IVF.  Anyway we have the post op review next week on the 6th so I guess she'll go into more detail then.  In the meantime I've got a certificate to stay off work till the 7th which is good because I can't see myself feeling up for doing much anytime soon.  I pretty much spent all of today in bed just getting up to go to the toilet or to get something to eat or drink.  Scout has been doing everything - looking after both me and the girls.  I'm pretty uncomfortable moving around in and out of bed with pain at the incision sites, a bit of cramping and gas pain in my chest that hit me pretty hard and fast at about 4am this morning.  I feel tired and alittle low about the growing list if things that we have weighed up against us already before even starting to try and make a baby.  But at least we know what we're working with now.   And knowing that, I can't imagine ever considering trying to get pregnant from home inseminations.  Thank goodness we didn't waste our time or money trying to do that.  So we'll just see how things go over the next few days.  Hopefully I'll be up and about a bit more tomorrow :)