Today’s the day. Today’s the day when Yvette gets her wish. Careful what you wish for…
Over the past several years Yvette’s been experiencing a lot of pain and discomfort during her cycle. The OB/GYN she’s had for a number of year kept attributing it to “menopause”, which we both felt was a crock given her multiple eptopic pregnancies, fallopian tube and scar tissue removal. Working with her GP, Yvette hooked up with a GYN that would actually look at the history and symptoms try to find out what was wrong. After a 2-3 month series of Lupron shots, her pain and discomfort was definitely related to her cycle and reproductive organs. After discussing it, Yvette got what she’s been after for the last 5 year: a hysterectomy.
So today, we’re off to Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Keene, NH for the procedure. Even though this is what she’s been after, the anticipation and build up is taking its toll. We’re both a bit apprehensive and worrying about things that we probably shouldn’t, but I guess that’s to be expected.
She’ll be in “overnight” and then come home on Thursday. I’m working at home for the next week or so until she feels she can be on her own again.
Update #1 - Took her to surgery at 10:40 AM after meeting with the surgical team. Procedure will take about 2 hours. I opted to go home since we only live 3 minutes from the hospital. I’ll go back around 12:15 PM or so. Dad called to check in as did Sue. I’ll try and remember to call both back when she gets out.
Update #2 - Got back to waiting area about 12:30 PM. Waited there until 1:10 PM and went back the the recovery area to check on her status. She was out of surgery and in recovery and awake! Evidently I had missed the Dr. by a few minutes. She was groggy and had the expected pain, but was not nauseous since they gave her this scopolamine patch behind the ear. I stayed until 1:50 PM when I left to get Grant from school. After Hannah gets home I’ll head back.
Update #3 - Arived back at hospital at 3:30 PM and they were just moving her to room 252. I had some tea while they got her situated. Not long after I got to her room they gave her a pain shot and she faded fast. Just had time to feed her a few spoons of ice before she drifted off. Left at 5:20 PM to fix dinner for the kids. We will all go back after dinner.
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