We got to the hospital to check in for surgery at 6:22 am. check in didn't take long. the check in room filled up fast. i was surprised how many people were getting surgery just that morning.
got called back and the nurse asked me to go to the restroom for a urine sample then back to the room to get in my gown. found a great show on Budda to watch and waited for nurse debbie. nurse debbie took my blood, put in an IV and gave me a blood thinning shot in the arm. this shot hurts so bad in the arm, make sure you get it in your stomach if you can.
next we wait and then get wheeled up to surgery.
we get up to the surgery floor and the nurse has me put on a hair cover. chris can not go with me any further. i think chris freaked out a little more than i did. nurse pushed me down the surgical hallway to a cubbie for surgery room 5, i think. nurse betty and the pain killer doc came and told me what was going to happen. he knew i was nervous about being put to sleep so he asked if i wanted some "i don't care" medicine. i said yes. i waited for the doc to get to the room and then the pain doc gave me the meds. he said it should work fast. i got wheeled into the OR and was asked by the nurse "okay sara you need to move to the other table." i said okay, and nothing happened. "sara you need to get on the other table." i said okay and nothing happened. then the nurses moved me to the other table and then the pain doc asked me to sit up. i tried to move but i couldn't. i looked around the room and saw all the cool machines and devices they use. then i fell asleep.
"sara, wake up. sara are you okay?" i was rolled into recovery. i didn't remember a thing. that was my worst fear. i asked the nurse if we were alive and they said yes. and i asked if we were in utah and they said yes. i just wanted to get back to chris but i had no idea how to talk. finally they started to wheel me to my room on the 11th floor of the tallest tower. i felt pretty special having such a high up room.
i had a private room with a great view of north slc. great night view. when we got back to the room, the nurses told me how to give myself pain meds and the buttons for the tv and nurse. then i was alone with chris. my sister jen, adriene and my mom came in to visit and my girls came too. i must have looked pretty bad. the doc told chris they didn't do the radical hysterectomy as planned because the tumor is going in a different area, to be specific it was growing on the uterosacral ligaments (or recto-uterine ligament) belongs to the major ligaments of uterus. The rectouterine folds contain a considerable amount of fibrous tissue and non-striped muscular fibers which are attached to the front of the sacrum and constitute the uterosacral ligaments, kind of a big ligament to mess with, so he took out eleven lymph nodes and that was it. i was relieved i didn't have to recover from a hysterectomy after all, but was pissed for having to go through all that to just take out nodes. Basically the doctor told me "I cut you open to take out all your lady bits but they looked really good except for the tumors i didn't want to remove so thanks and i hope you heal fast and pay your bill." Oh yeah he down graded me to stage 2 cervical cancer. He then told me i should see a different specialist and i would need chemotherapy and radiation. WTF? This was not in the deal. i am getting more pissed off but the drugs take over and i relax and tell myself to worry later.
first nights in the hospitals are always the worst. i couldn't sleep with nurses coming in every two hours or sooner to check on me. i had a catheter that was horrible. i missed the girls a lot. don't know what they thought of the whole thing. you can ask them and they will say they are fine or cry a little but you can never know for sure what they think. I started experiencing some breathing problems the first night so i got a breathing treatment and a few more every 4 hours. i couldn't breath after i did the breathing exercises, breathing exercises are taking breaths in and out using a plastic device. I suck on the tube and try to hold my breath then breathe out slowly. the breathing treatments helped my lungs open up and take more oxygen.
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