Wednesday, September 28, 2011

update on my surgery

First of all saw this pic on pinterest and laughed hysterically at this, i am pathetic i know but i totally want to find that for my cat!


I blog mostly for myself I used to partly for my parents because they lived far away but now they live close and now its just serving as a family log sort of thing and i hope to print it out at the end of the year and it will be our "scrapbook" so i want to share my experience with the surgery i had last tuesday and the drama. lol! Surgery went well, the hospital staff was pretty cool and it was all same day so i went to the hospital and got home all in one day. We checked in and they took a urine test and some blood procedure stuff then i get to my room and hang out waiting for the dr. to come and give me the low down and the nurse came in and took some blood which was weird. Then a while later another nurse came in and said well Stephanie you are pregnant! okay... not expecting that one, so instantly i am feeling super concerned and worried because a week earlier i had a ct scan and at that time they said i wasn't pregnant... so because of this i had to decide if i wanted to go ahead with surgery and was freaking out about the ct scan. so i have this crazy thing inside my bladder causing lots of pain and i have had it for quite some time now so i went in that day totally excited and anxious to get rid of this problem and now i am facing whether or not to live with it for 9 more months. i instantly start balling.. (prego lady hormones and stress im sure.) and luckily my husband has his head on straight because i was freaking out. Jake tells me its not a choice its more important to have a happy healthy mommy to take care of the kids we have and a future kiddo, so we decide ok lets do surgery. well they couldn't put me completely under because i could contract and lose the baby while i was under so it was higher risk for that option so they had to do a spinal anesthesia which is similar to an epidural. well i hate the epidural i have had two and they really aren't so bad but i am the kind of person that needs to mentally prepare for these kinds of things and i was not prepared to be fully conscious while they were cutting stuff out of me in a strange surgical room so... i am stressed trying my best to be calm and collected. we get into the surgery room and i had to leave my Jacob behind and here i am bending over waiting for this spinal needle to hit and oh wait the Dr. was having an "off" day and ended up poking me several times, i am not totally sure how many times i for sure remember 6 and I have like 10 holes in my spine, i remember one try hit bone (spine) yeah that was pleasant! So i am balling because its like having 6 epidurals and no husband there to comfort me and hold me talk about crappy and uncomfortable, finally surgery is under way the dr. gave me something to make me sleepy thank heavens because i was shaking like crazy at this point, and i was done about an hour later. When all the drugs wore off i had the worst pain occur in my life and they had to dope me up with more drugs because it hurt so bad and they put a stint in. The dr. tells us well 8 out of 10 people don't feel the stint and 2 out of 10 cant stand it.. i knew i would be one of those 2! well i was and i have been dying of pain and discomfort and finally got the stint removed and i am feeling much better just totally wiped out and was not planning on any of this and i did not expect it to be near as emotional painful, stressful and hard has it was and has been. I  have learned to be patient because i have had to rely heavily on Jacob doing EVERYTHING poor guy and my parents, sisters, friends, and ward have saved us by feeding us and babysitting and yelling at me to rest. its been one crazy roller coaster and one crazy experience i hope to never relive! and they did pull out 21 stones and that was crazy and it is official i am pregnant about 6 weeks along so i hope and pray i don't lose this baby from all of this stress and crazy drugs and everything, we were semi planning a baby but obviously not expecting it quite yet. So good and crazy week and I am happy to report i am feeling much better each day and totally appreciate everyone's help and prayers! below is a pic of the stones ewwww gross i know right! haha so what am i supposed to do with these? the guy nurses were teasing me and telling me to make a baby rattle with them, they found it so funny that i was pregnant!



Anyway hopefully things will continue to get better and that I will feel back to 100% soon!

6 comments:

Jenny Brimhall said...

Ahhhh!! Congrats on the baby and so sorry about all the nasty stuff you had to go through!!! What a day! I would have totally f-r-e-a-k-e-d out if they told me I was prego. I hope you start feeling better!

Rachel Leslie said...

Wow, what a way to find out you're pregnant! I hope you feel better soon, though I guess if you're pregnant you probably won't feel completely better for a long long time. sigh. Congrats, I can't wait to see one more cutie cute pictured on this fun fun blog. I know I haven't seen you forever, and it will probably be a while before I do, but I just love reading your blog and seeing your adorable kiddos grow up.

Shalane said...

what a crazy story, stephanie! congratulations on being pregnant, and I'm so glad you got the stones taken care of. and I laughed really hard that they told you to make a baby rattle out of them :)

hosander said...

bah! that was a horrible, wonderful story. I'm glad Jake is always there to take care of you. I'm glad you are feeling better and congratulations on the pregnancy!

Also, I totally think you should make a rattle. that would be hilarious.

HaleyL said...

Seriously! That is crazy! Blech, Blech (except for the new baby part... add a hooray! for that with all the blechs)

Hannah Frank said...

I can't believe how this story went! Congratulations on the pregnancy!!! So sorry you had all that drama with the surgery! I would have been panicking! I hope you feel better soon and wish I was closer to drop off some cookies to sweeten your day!