January 15, 2018 - surgery to check for cancer

12:13 p.m
I've got endometriosis and it's been giving me some trouble, so I'm having a bit of day surgery today to see if I can't get feeling better. It's about an hour til they take me back to do the hysteroscopy and dilatation cutterage and I'm just chilling in on a gurney in the day surgery area of Lethbridge Regional Hospital to pass the time. My hope, whatever the outcome may be, is that they find out why I have not been feeling well and manage to fix the issue so I can feel good again. I know this is quite a personal thing to share, but it's MY personal thing to share and I have so many feelings about how it could go and I just ask for prayers

After the surgery
I had a hysteroscopy and D&C at the Lethbridge Regional Hospital to check things out and so they could also take a sample of things for a pathology. I had a spinal block done instead of accepting the option of anesthesia and the surgery itself was very quick.

The recovery is an ongoing process and there are both good and bad days. The follow-up is the 20th of February as far as I know and I will learn more then.


8:13 p.m.
Well, I'm alive, but sore. Around one p.m., I was taken to a pre-op room and when the anesthesiologist came in, he gave me the option of having a spinal block instead of being put under. Since being put under has made me sick in the past, I went for the spinal block and it was incredibly painful just to get it done, but it worked and I was able to avoid feeling anything during the surgery. It did take some time, however, for me to get enough feeling back into my legs and feet and they finally let me out around six p.m. with aftercare instructions. My parents brought me out to Raymond to recover and between the spinal block and the aftereffects of the surgery, this recovery will probably prove interesting. The sample they took from those regions will be tested and II should get information about that in a couple of weeks, but I can use those couple of weeks to get all the strength back that I lost in dealing with this.