Surgery

Today was D day and I am so relieved it's over! I wasn't as anxious this time around because I asked for a little medicine (heh heh!) for my anxiety and it really helped. I arrived at the surgery center at Noon today and filled out all the necessary paperwork. No fever upon check in and normal blood pressure so I guess the anxiety pill did help! The only uncomfortable part was when the nurse put the IV in she had to wiggle the needle around to "chase" my vein and that REALLY hurt. Even when it was finally in my arm it continued to hurt. Ah well, it's over now at least.

Mom was so gracious and stayed at my house to watch K the whole time while my MIL took me to the surgery since I would not be permitted to drive afterwards. K sure loves grammy and pop pop!

The surgery lasted about an hour and 15 minutes. Then I was taken to the recovery room for another hour and a half while the anesthesia wore off. Thankfully, there was no need to do the laproscopy in addition to the hysteroscopy this time so recovery will be quick and we will be able to start trying right away. Apparently, when they fed the tiny camera into my uterus, the doctors saw a band of scar tissue stretched across the left corner of my uterus. Once the doctor carefully cut the tissue away, a whole bunch of placental tissue came out as well. I guess the scar tissue had been acting as a net holding all that leftover tissue from my last pregnancy inside my uterus. After they got this out, the doctor inserted a baby catheter into the uterus. This is to keep the walls of my uterus from healing back onto itself again. He will remove it next week if it doesn't fall out by then. I will also get to see the pictures they took of what the scar tissue in the uterus looked like at this appointment so that should be interesting!

Prognosis is very good at this point. Both doctors were very pleased and said my uterine cavity looked completely clean and even better than it did at my first hysteroscopy/laproscopy last Sept 2012. I'm very happy too, I don't think it could have gone any better! I'm happy to have avoided a laproscopy, which would have prolonged my recovery and subjected me to additional hormones that I have no desire to take.