Hernia update....

 Had appointment with Dr. Cacucci this morning. Heather is to call me with hernia surgery date Monday..and it will be in 2009 so we had to postpone getting the 'girls' done on Dec. 1st. She measured the hernia...13" x 11"!! The three hernias have combined to form one humongous one. I'll let you all know when surgery will be. It'll be in-patient (of course) at St. V's Carmel.

FYI...Marta is no longer with Carmel Surgical...

Sherri

Update:  Heather just called and surgery is going to be Dec. 1st at 2.

Sherri

Well Sherri, I hate so much to hear this news.  Like your motto says at the bottom of your post, looks like this is your "hell in the hallway" for right now.  You got a double whammy.  Also had to postpone the girls.  But this is your priority now and your girls will always be waiting for you in the wings.  You have something wonderful to look forward to.

Another friend recently had a hernia repair at St. V's Carmel and the doc sent her home the next day cause there were 6 cases of H1N1 there in the hospital.  Thought it was best that she heal at home.  Don't know if that's an option for you or not.  FYI

Good luck.

Kathy,

I'm really getting tired of this hallway being so darn long...you know?

I'll definately be in the hospital for awhile. It's going to be a very complicated surgery because of how screwed up my insides are now. They also have to figure out a way to get the mesh to stay put and not move like it did the first time. They can't use the bovine this time because that is what gave way. Because of the stubborn infections that I had gotten before and it taking cipro via IV to get rid of them, I'll be a resident through a course of cipro via IV as a precaution so that hopefully I don't end up with un-healable holes in my stomach this time. I look to be in there 3-10 days...depending on how the surgery & healing goes...but I really doubt if it is less than 7. Last time, it ws 9..with nothing but ice chips by mouth for the first 7. At least I learned how to time my walks between pain med doses. lol.

Oh..for work, I had to ask about weight lifting limitations and for how long. I have a doctor's note to bring to EHS Monday. I'm not to lift anything more than 10 pounds...FOREVER. Ummm..I guess that is for a substantial time period, huh? So...when I go grocery shopping, I can lift a gallon of milk IF my purse is in the cart and not on my shoulder.

Got my 5 yr labs too....Vitamin D was a little bit low, liver results elevated (again), and iron was low enough that I have to take a script to see if that helps.

Sherri

goodness....ouch.....is all i can even think of....you need to be home and on the mend long before santa gets here...Prayers you mend and heal and do 100% better than before and that this is it for any hernias....

Thanks Angie. I'm really, really hoping that this is the last time that the word 'hernia' and my stomach are referred to in the same sentence. It seems like each one is larger than the one before.

I think Christmas is going to be small this year. I usually like to shop for 'bargains' but I'm not going to have much time to do that once that I am up and able to drive again. I know I'll also get worn out quick (quicker than I do now even). At least Bill now knows that he has to go shopping with me..pretty much forever since I can't lift crap anymore. Poor guy. If you ask him what top things he hates to do, I am quite sure that shopping would be close to the top of his list. Waiting would be a close second...and he has spent countless hours waiting in the waiting rooms while I was in surgery over the past 10 years (but especially over the past 5). On the plus side, it is instilling the spirit of Christmas into him more each year. I don't know if that is from being forced into helping me shop or because of the grandkids. Either way, it sure makes it alot more fun to have a co-consipitor! LOL!

Sherri

Sorry about the girls but I hope they can get your inside fixed this time. No one should have to go thru what you have had to. You are in my thoughts and prayers. You will really be a hot Mama when this is fixed and those girls are done! Jana

Sherri I am truely sorry you have to go through this.  I pray that God will guide your surgeon to a permanant fix for you this time.  You have gone through so much and certainly deserve a break from it all. 

Jeannie

Jeannie,

Thank you. I could definately use all the prayers I can get. Bill & I both need a break from this stuff. Oh..on the morning of Dec. 1st, Bill has to have a laser thing done to his eye because there is a piece of tissue (I don't remember what Dr. Price called it) that is starting to interfere with Bill's vision. When you have limited vision..and that vision is all in one eye, the last thing you need is something hindering that even. So...before we go for my surgery, we'll be going for him procedure. Poor Tiffany..she's got to tag along with us for that so she can be our dedicated driver. That's going to be a long day for her.

hugs...

Jana,

I've pretty much given up hope of ever looking like a hot Moma. lol. I would be happy to not look like I was about to become a new Mommy!

You're right..no one should ever have to go through what my past 2.5 years have been. I keep trying to find a 'reason' for it. I think I'm to the point of believing that it is so that new people will see that there is a reason why they know the risks of the surgeries that are performed..it's because they definately can and do happen to people. Shoot...I could say that about everything every since I had my RNY, huh? I am so glad that I had the RNY anyway. If there is anything about all of this that I would had differently had I known then what I know now, it's that when they tried to say I had pnumonia after my abdoplasty that I would had stuck to my guns and have argued my deep belief that it wasn't pnumonia (especially since it turned out to be a blood clot in my lung instead!). Had I done that, maybe they would had found the clot two weeks earlier...and maybe the coughing they made me do wouldn't had gotten the intestines irritated to the point of losing their blood flow. Notice...I don't regret having the abdoplasty. Because of it, I met Dr. Bergman and learned what a truly caring, wonderful person she is as well as being an extremely skilled surgeon.

So now...I'd just be happpy if I could wear jeans again. I HATE elastic waist pants! Hot moma? They scream NOT! lol

Sherri