Recovering

Well, I survived.  Unfortunately it wasn’t quite as quick and painless as I hoped.  If they’d only had to remove the polyp, it probably would have been pretty painless (well at least when accompanied by some Ad.vil of course), but they did end up working on my septum again.  I guess it was a bit lumpy or something so they really cleaned it up. 

The bad part of this is that because of the septum work, they had to put a saline filled balloon in my uterus again.  I guess it helps the healing process and reduces the chance of adhesions forming where they scraped.  Unfortunately my uterus does not like having a balloon in it and therefore is acting like a vise trying to expel it.  This does not feel good at all.  Thankfully the pain is not constant and only comes in waves, pretty much like regular period cramps just more intense. 

The doctor said everything they did should improve our chances, but I take that with a huge grain of salt.  I really don’t think either the polyp or the septum is what was causing our infertility and therefore I also don’t believe that the work they did will automatically fix our problems.  But I do believe that everything they did cannot hurt and may possibly help if and when God decides to give us our miracle baby.  It will at least minimize (although not eliminate of course) my chances of miscarriage that were increased due to the septum itself.

Anyway, I am a bit hopped up on Vicodin at the moment but just wanted to let you guys know I survived!  I’m hoping my uterus gives up it’s fight against the balloon soon (which the doctors says does happen in time).  So once that happens I will be feeling a heck of a lot better.  And at least with this procedure, since I didn’t have a lap with it, I don’t also have to deal with the shoulder pain…yay!  That’s my way of looking on the bright side.

The one thing I’m NOT looking forward to next week, is going back to work with this catheter tube thing hanging out of me.  Umm…talk about awkward and uncomfortable.  Guess I better figure out an outfit that hides it appropriately…grrr!

Thanks for all your well wishes!  I’m just glad it’s over and baring any additional findings from a NaPro doc (if I end up pursuing that), I’m hoping it’s my last surgery for this type of thing EVER!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!  TGIF!

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Update:  Yup, the new picture is a pastel painting of Mike and I when we went hiking this summer.  His mom did it from a picture we took.   She is an AMAZING artist, isn’t she?