Bless Your Heart

You guys are so sweet and I just can’t tell you how much I adore all of you. I’m way behind on answering emails as my cough meds knock me out for a lot of the day and I spent yesterday afternoon with the garage door installation man. Oh, and I’ve been getting lots of emails from readers I don’t know lately. Welcome! Please comment! I don’t bite! Most of the emails start out with “hey I’ve read your blog for a long time but don’t comment.” Why not? I’ve even started trying to respond to each comment. I appreciate your comments! So leave em. It’s like getting a little bloggy mail. And you know I LOVE mail.

Let me please clear something up. The “can’t breathe” thing. It’s just a cold. Not shortness of breath. Just can’t breathe through my nose cause it’s clogged up. But I’m on some kick ass decongestants and I can breathe through both nostrils now and things are much better. Still coughing but the sneezing is gone too.

Tomorrow I have to be on a clear liquid diet and take some sort of science experiment drink to clean out my bowels. SO MUCH FUN! So I’m gonna pick up that lovely liquid at Target along with some magazines and what not. My DR. says I should bring my own pajamas. Problem is, I sleep nakey. And they don’t want that. And all of my loungey clothes are tshirts and pants and I don’t wanna wear pant type things with waistbands to bother my incisions. So I need to pick up a nightgown. And I suppose some slippers. Maybe I’ll just bring Crocs instead. My surgery is slated for 1pm Friday and my Dr. thinks I’ll be able to go home sometime on Sunday.

I’ve gotten some questions on my procedure, so here’s some info:
I am having a total hysterectomy. A total hysterectomy means the removal of the uterus together with the cervix, not the ovaries. Next, in terms of recovery, laparoscopic assisted vaginal or laparoscopic abdominal hysterectomy allow for a 3 to 4 week recovery (as compared to 6 weeks for an open abdominal incision). But patients need to know that fatigue can last longer then incision healing time. Laparoscopic procedures may take longer in the operating room, (which means a longer time under anesthesia), often cost more (a lot of expensive disposable instruments are used) and require special surgical expertise. The good news is that studies have shown that for most women a hysterectomy improves the quality of their lives and may be life saving.