ERIN_AK
well as of May 07, I have lost 200lbs and feel awesome. I have had no problems since surgery other then a mystery pain in my lower right side. The docs made me a Guinea pig and put me through the ringer to see what it was, so no clue. The pains come and go daily, but I live with it and enjoy life now. I am now waiting for my PS, and am hoping for it by the end of the summer. I want arms, thighs, TT and a bewbie lift.
9/23/08
I found out the cause of my mystery pains for the last 4 yrs. Seems I have had a large growth on my right ovary and the docs didn't think to look there. I had an ultra sound on Thursday and was sent less then 24hrs later up north to Anchorage for surgery. I did all the pre-op torture tests and blood labs, EKG, EGD and a final second pelvic ultra sound before hand. I had my right ovary and large mass and tube removed, and the left ovary was the size of a green pea, it was given a tubal ligation. The did it via laproscopically. I was in recovery less then an hour, shoved in a car and sent to the medical hotel behind the hospital to re-coop. That night the air gas bubble shot into my chest and caused major problems. They thought I shot a blood clot and rushed me back to the hospital ER, they stuck nitro patches all over my chest and nitro spray under my tongue. They did a cat scan to make sure no clots shot out into my heart. I couldn't pee still being 9hrs postie, so they cathed me and the dam broke, I filled the cath bag, they had to drain and get another one. Guess all the IV fluids and sipping tea did it. I was weak from all the morphine they pumped in me, and I was bleeding heavily from the surgery. They kept me overnight and back to the medical hotel. I was drugged well to keep the pains away, they didn't want me moving much cause of the bleeding, I felt like a zombie when I was awake, but I made it through, still don't know as of 7 days postie what the path lab was on the mass removed. I will post more when I find out. Hoping negative and not needed radiation or chemo. keep your fingers crossed.
10/2/08
still no word on the pathologists reports on the mass. I am walking or trying too more and more each day. Today I went a weeeee bit too far walking with the kids and dog. Before I realized it, we had walked over 2 miles from home and my guts were cramping and majorly hurting. I could feel each step in my abdominal wall. It hurt like hell and good thing I brought my cell phone, cause I called my sister to come get me and drive me home. I went to the doc yesterday and got 2 kenalog shots in my elbows and 1 in my tummy to try and ease the major pains still there. The hemorrhaging finally stopped.. YAAAAAA. I have another appt with the OB/GNY on Monday and hopefully she will have the path lab results. bout it for now, still alive and kicking, just kicking slower then usual.
11/21/08
Just had my 6wk check-up since surgery. I got the report.. YAAAAAA NO CANCER. But the mass tumor was fricken HUGE, the sucker was the size of a golf ball, if not bigger. I got a xerox pic of it and will try and post it here. I am doing well healing and she is impressed, specially that I was walking around so long with that size of that damn thing in me so long. She said the pains were from my bladder filling up and lower intestines also shifting the mass around, is what caused that horrible pains that 4 docs couldn't find and countless MRI, cat scans, ultra sounds and barium swallows couldn't see. BUT life is great, no more pains and now I can start back to the gym Monday.. yaaaaaaaaa for me..
11/25/08
SEE PICTURES FOR THE SCAN OF THE LARGE TUMOR REMOVED.. ITS HUGE, SIZE OF A LARGE EGG.. ITS NOT PRETTY, AND HURT LIKE A MOFO...
01/01/09
well on my 5Th year wls anniversary (DEC 08) I and a little accident in my bedroom. From what ppl are piecing together of the events, I got out of bed from napping to fast and passed out. I hit the door frame hard on the right side of my head, then fell to the left and caught my neck on the edge of the dresser. My bf head the crash and came and found me unconscious on the floor not breathing. He and my family tried to revive me, called 911. I had a seizures from the accident and in the hospital in the MRI machines. I was admitted to CCU for 3 days to try and stabilize me. I still have a huge dent (3 inches) in my head and seizures. I am being sent to Renton Washington to Valley Medical Hospital for some EEG video scan to see how, why and what is causing the tremors and seizures still. My bf is a saint, he has been helping me through the night when the seizures hit and during the day, to make sure I am safe and don't hurt myself. The meds they gave me aren't working well, even with the increase. I hate taking pills and these make me feel looped and drugged. I cant drive or work for 6 months which sucks, I love my teaching job and miss the students. I have no memory of what happened, the doctors said I may someday remember or not. Either way its very frustrating not knowing what happened.
01/04/09
ok I got the conformation last night for my hospital stay in Renton Washington and flight info. They are requiring a chaperon for me to fly and be with me, so my bf Kit is coming with me. He will be staying in the hospital room with me, since he knows when I am having the seizures and what type. He can alert the staff, prior to the onset, very before the monitor electrodes on my head go off. I will be gone from the 11Th of January till the 17Th. wish me luck they figure out whats wrong and how hard I whacked my head and cracked it.
2/5/09
well the date for Renton got postponed a week. I went down January 25th for my weeks stay in hell. I went to admitting and a boy next to me was there for the samething. I heard a huge bang and the poor thing was having a seizure and clocked his head on the counter and floor falling down. WELL, reality hit me when I saw him and I asked Kit my bf if thats how I looked having my seizures. I couldnt handle seeing it anymore and started balling and started shaking all over. They were affraid I was going to seize myself and took me away from the area, and had Kit walk me outside for air and try to compose myself. I was scared not knowing what was instore for me for the week, or what would happen now that they took me off the dilantin I had been on for the last 8 weeks. They finally finished admitting and a nice lady escorted us to the neuro-clinic unit. They had me change into my jammies and put special footies on me. The tech came in with a huge basket, it had wires all hanging out. He used something to scratch and rub my scalp RAW. OMFG did that hurt, specially when he rubbed 4 patches of skin where I cracked my head. Kit had to bout hold me down and keep me in the bed. They used fricken medical super glue to stick the electrodes on my scalp and chest. I had this appendage attached to my hip with the wire ends, there was a special button Kit was to hit when he saw me starting a seizure. Needless to say, I had 3 while there, being off the meds. Everything was video taped from a camera at the end of my bed and a mic over the bed too.
My day nurse was AWESOME, she was great and helped me a bunch, even let me sneak on the cell and use my laptop a few times to talk to my sons and family. The evening nurses smelled like hoochies who marinated in whorefume. Anyway.. after being confined to bed so long and finally leaving Friday, I was told I had stress seizures that were compounded by the head injury. They are nocturnal ones when my body relaxed too much. Since being home I have done a total 360 and rid my life of 80% of the stressfull things in my life, and took a IT DOESNT matter attitude now,. Kit has been awesome the whole time, he never left my side, even when he found me in December on the bedroom floor out cold and barely breathing. I am on the road to recovery slowly, one day I hope all the seizures will be gone, but life will always throw you stressfull things, I just need to learn not to take them so seriously.. taa taa for now.. and thanks for all the well wishes and prayers too all my friends.
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1/12/2011
hey, I havent posted in a while, so here goes. Life been good, had scare with my dad getting very ill with colon cancer thats spread to his liver and lyumphnodes. I spent 2 weeks in Florida with him, and took Zach along with me, so I wouldnt have issues and seizures if anythingt happened to dad while I was there. I was with him the entire time, but took a day off for Zach and I surprised him by driving to disney from Ocala. I got a scooter so Zach could play all day there and I wasnt in pain walking around. It was a Godsend having that, we played all day there and got back to Ocala around 1am.. lol.. we had fun.... dads surgery went well, they took out the effected colon and fused it back so no colonoscopy bag.. yaaaaa.... he has a long fight ahead, more surgery for the liver and massive chemo to try and fight it off more.. The wls is still going well, only much slower now. I am 7yrs postie now and as of date, I have lost 230lbs. I am trying to maintain, but I flux up and down a few pounds, its ok with me. I had back surgery May 09 and the doc screwed up, he nicked my L5/S5 spinal nerve. I have no feeling in my left leg from the knee down. I have been to a bunch of docs trying to fix his error, and yes I contacted an attorney to sue his ass. He is now trying to blame other things on it and no his mistake. He had the nerve to say I had diabetes.. lol.. too funny since 4weeks earlier I did my 7yr labs and everything was perfect even sugar levels. what an asshat, he even did a cranial MRI cause he told my PCP I had a stroke.. lmao she laughed too.. I am heading to Seattle to Swedish Hosp to meet with the top notch neurologist there to see what can be done, its tough walking and not feeling your foot, the ground, and it being extremly cold to touch now from the neropathy thats set in. Life is good, trying to keep warm and do what I can with the huny and boys, its rough with a bad back and in pains alot. I hate taking pills, and dont wanna be on oxy anymore for it. SO wish me luck with the new doc.
