Surgery Update

It has been a couple of weeks since KC had surgery. She is feeling better but is still experiencing quite a bit of abdominal pain. By no means am I a comedian, however, when I make her laugh, she ends up being doubled-up in pain and has to tell me to stop. She is a lot less bloated now, and is happy to begin wearing her own clothes. For a while there, the only thing that she felt comfortable wearing was a pair of flannel boxers (which were even too big for me), wool socks with leg-warmers, and her favorite white sweatshirt. It kind of made her look like she was wearing a kilt, so she often times would talk to me with a Scottish accent.
A couple of days ago, we had the post-surgical consultation with her doctor/surgeon. The doctor showed us a sketch of the endometriosis as well as pictures that he took with the camera (through her belly button - which KC has mentioned, will never be the same again. She actually took a picture of it before the surgery as a keepsake). After viewing the sketch and the pictures, I completely understand why the procedure took 4 hours - there was so much of it that he had to take care of. He felt 99% confident that he managed to excise all of it. He also mentioned, that by excising the endometriosis, there would be an extremely low likelihood that it would come back in the excised area. This was good news, because we both had feared that KC might have to do this again every couple of years or so.

Surgery

A couple of days ago, KC was scheduled to have a lapraroscopy to remove 2 cysts, a fibroid, and to determine whether or not she had endometriosis. She had been experiencing a lot of pain, and her doctor recommended this approach to alleviate the pain.

The procedure was scheduled to begin at 2:30 pm. Of course, it did not start until 4 pm. However, the procedure ended up taking 4 hours (we were only expecting it to last 2 hours or so). It was determined that KC had Level IV endometriosis (the most severe). Fortunately, the surgeon was able to excise the endometriosis - he believed that he had managed to excise all of it (along with removing the cysts and fibroid). In any case, due to the severity of her endometriosis (she had some on her liver), the procedure took a long time.

The surgery concluded at 8 pm. KC was admitted to a hospital room at 2:30 am after the nurses determined that she was way too dizzy, nauseous, and dehydrated to send her home. We finally left the hospital yesterday (at around 4 pm).