And I swear I am going to get this updated. There is so much to share. I went in for a hysterectomy October 1st and ended up with infection and was there 18 days. Here's the long/short version of what happened.
This a c and p from one of my boards.
At my 6 wk check up after James, I had an abnormal pap. I went in for a culposcopy, the cells were severely abnormal and were advancing fast, since my pap in Nov was normal. My cervical canal was too narrow for them to remove the cells. I was done having children(my tubes were tied). So my dr. and I made the decision to do a hysterectomy abdominally since I had had three c/s's. My hyster was Oct. 1st. I went in, surgery went well, but was lengthy. He removed 3 1/2 in of scar tissue and gave me a bonus 2 1/2 in tummy tuck I was running a very lowgrade fever but did my discharge paperwork fri night, my dr came in sat morning to discharge me and my fever had spiked to 101. They kept me and a barrage of tests started. They did:
EKG
3 CT scans
a TON of blood workblood cultures
HIDA scan
u/s of abdomen
u/s of legs for bloodclots
xrays of my lungs and a bunch I cant remember.
I had my reg dr, an infectious disease dr, and a surgeon seeing me daily. For a week and a half they couldnt figure out was wrong, I was on high dose antibiotics, and they kept me pretty drugged so a lot of t is a blur. Two weeks ago tonight, my fever spiked to 104, and they couldnt get it down. They made the decision to go in vaginally to remove the mesh they had put by my bladder thinking my body was rejecting it. They also wanted to get a look at the small mass that was forming in my pevis that they could see in the last CT scan. They couldnt get it vaginally, so went in with a scope in my belly button and still nothing. They ended up reopening my incision. My poor incision runs hip to hip They took out the mesh, the mass, and put in two drains. I still had the fever, and they switched abx again. It made me deathly ill, so after two days I made them switch my abx back. My fever broke last Saturday and they let me go home. Somewhere about 3/4 of the way thru my stay, I gave up. I had been pumping and dumping every 2 hrs for sweet baby James the whole time, and after the second surgery, it was too much I was physically exhausted, I couldnt do it anymore. I had fought so dang hard to keep nursing him and keep my milk in, but it just was too hard. I could barely get out of bed. So I quit. Now that I am home, I am costantly nursing him, and my milk is slowly coming back. I think we are making huge progress. He went right back to nursing easily, its just a matter of getting my supply back up. If you have any suggestions please throw them at me. I am hoping my Dr. will clear me on Monday to take Reglan, but last week he wanted me to wait becuase of the ten millions meds I was already on. I am now down to two meds. I still have my Picc line in and give myself IV abx every day and give myself a shot of Lovanox every day. But, I am home with my kids. And that is the best. I am getting stronger very day and am doing great.Here's some pics:
The roses the kids bought me:
My pretty arms:
