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I had a ton of inabilities to post this, from my own laptop, mobile, this morning, so I'm posting now. I am post-op and will update that soon.
Thank you to all the kind well wishes I've been receiving. For some reason, Firefox isn't liking Y!360, and I can see comments, but can not post there, at all. Hopefully, by now, everyone knows how to see me over here, so I'll just update the hospital vacation, here.

1. I'm so comfortable! For the last four and a half hours, I've been "hooked up" to these compression boots. They are plugged into an air line, and they vibrate and compress up to my thigh, alternating legs. I know why I need them, medically, but aside from that need, I feel like I'm having a great regular leg massage!

2. Morphine is my best friend, today. The Delauded, from the ER, seemed to come on stronger, but didn't last as long. Once my poor arms recover from the burn/shock of the pain medication injection, its a leveled pain control.

3. A hiccup feels like a punch in the stomach. I hope to not sneeze for a week, or more.

4. I think my arms or skin, in general, is in hyper sensitive mode. My arms look like a war zone, and I hope to keep my current IV for anesthesia, but I think I heard its too small. Ouch.

5. Nuclear test results showed no activity of the gall bladder. It is dead, enlarged, and yucky! *giggle at yucky*

6. Broth tastes really good when you have had no food or drink, by mouth, for 14 hours.

7. My new surgeon has wonderful bedside manner.

8. The procedure is called Open Cholecystectomy. I am unable to have the laparoscopic procedure because my major incision, from my gastric bypass (my gastric bypass is officially titled, Vertically Transected, Silastic Ring banded, Roux en Y Gastric Bypass with a Gastrostomy and a gastrostomy site marker" (TSRBVGB), meaning my stomach was completely transected, a ring/band was placed around my new pouch, that acts solely as a food reservoir, and my intestines were re-routed into a Y shape, to connect both the old stomach and the new pouch to my intestines, allowing for a large percentage of nutrient absorption to be bypassed or avoided *forced malabsorption*) sits where the camera needs to be for this type of procedure. There is too much scar tissue that makes this a difficult procedure and the complications that are possible, are not worth the risk.

9. I will have a new 6-7 inch diagonal scar, on the upper right side of my abdomen. Can we say "battlefield"? *wink*

10. I'm going to rest again, now that the pain medicine is working. Wish you were here! *smile* Catch you again, after recovery..
Surgery update coming soon!

~Heidi

A Few Minutes Break of Recovery

I just pushed the morphine drip button, so I may have just a few minutes to leave a small update here.
I've been having internet problems and unable to post to blog. While its currently working, I wanted to briefly check in.
The surgery went well.
The surgeon is shocked at the toxic hell he found to remove.
He said it was 10 inches long. I'll look up what a normal one should be, soon, unless one of you knows and leaves it in comment. The surgeon said its the largest he's ever seen.
I've had three ultrasounds of it, over the last few years, for many different reasons. The surgeon even said, when he saw the ultrasound that it appeared large, but normal and he couldn't remove it unless the nuclear test proved it bad, which it did.
It has been sent to pathology. He said he feels its been in its state of hell, growing, etc, for YEARS.
When I talked to my mother, a little while ago, I reali zed my head didn't hurt.
Any of you that really know me, know I'm plagued with headaches and migraines. My head hurt, last night, after I started the morphine and was real bad just before surgery.
It will be extremely fascinating to see what other illness, ill-effects, etc, that I have been living with, including shoulder pain and back pain change as I recover more...
more later..
~Heidi