Some more thoughts

I am wondering if they would have operated on me Wed night instead of waiting ‘tilt he next morning if they would have saved the ovary and fallopian tube.   I was thinking about this and then asked Dave about it. He had been thinking about it too. He read up on it a bit and since torsion is considered an OB emergency it is his thought that they probably should have taken me to the OR at night. We’d like to talk to an OB and find out their thoughts (one who would give us a true opinion, not one who took part in my care who would be able to tell the full truth without concern that they’d be in trouble for it).    At the time of my ultrasound at about 9pm I still had good blood flow to both ovaries.   12 hours later in surgery the bloodflow was not good enough to save the ovary and fallopian tube.   Dave said in his reading it looks like if you operate within about 10 hours of the onset of symptoms you can usually spare the ovary. My symptoms started about 3:30pm so they should have been able to save the ovary had they taken me to the OR.

I wonder how much better my care would have been if I were in SD where I could have seen my normal OB and had one of them take me to surgery rather than show up at the ER and wait in line to be seen by an ER doc.

In spite of it, glad I’m okay.

I have a hazy memory in the night of dave talking to the dr. and saying that we’re done having kids so even if they can’t save the ovary it would be okay.  I kind of chuckle at him being so sure we’re done having kids! haha

I had one very lazy nurse. She was on the day shift yesterday so when I got back from surgery she was in charge of me.  She took my vitals when I got back to my room and then put a urine measuring cup thing on the toilet. A few hours later I told her I needed to go to the bathroom (by phone) and she told me go ahead and unplug everything and go. It was kind of weird she didn’t come in.  My other inpatient experience was after having a baby and in those cases they told me “don’t get up for the first time unless I’m here).   Then when I called her again a few hours later to see if she wanted to measure the pee in the measuring thing, she said, “how full is it?” I said, “pretty full” and she said “just go ahead and dump it out” . Very strange. A couple of other times thought out the day she called me on the phone to ask me a question. I can’t remember what ….probably because I was so shocked that she was calling me.  I wanted to say something like “since I had surgery a few hours ago, don’t you think it’s strange that you’d make me get up to answer the phone rather than take 10 steps down the hall and come talk to me in person. All the rest of the nursing staff was great.

Love the chewable ice in the hospital.

The food – YUCK, but I can’t complain too much. I wasn't even hungry the time I was there.

A cute friend, the RS president in my ward, brought over the most amazing dinner last night. Soup and cake from ruggles café and some tacos from torchy’s. Unfortunately I was only able to eat a little bit but can’t wait to go back in a few weeks when I’m really hungry and try everything on the menu!! J I love food.

I am home now. Dave is on dad duty but the kids still want to talk to me most. Especially Jo! They are all concerned about me and glad I'm okay. Jo said she doesn't like how my tummy looks. I have three small incisions, one in the belly button (which is super sore) and two lower on either side of my lower tummy which are hardly sore at all.

Based on what the dr. said and how I feel now, I think I need about 3 days of doing absolutely nothing and then two weeks of taking it easy and then I’ll be back to full activity. Dr. said in two weeks I can run, lift weights and do all normal activities.     I'm going to send Dave on a costco run tomorrow to pick up lots of paper goods, lots of fruit, and several meals that I can just heat and serve so that I don't have to be in the kitchen much next week.