Hi Dodi and Jackie and anyone else who cares!I am writing a quick journal so you know I am home, and then going to get off the computer again. I am in a lot of pain. The surgery took 6 hours! He did 6 small incisions and said I had a lot of scar tissue that he removed and my uterus was enlarged. He will let me know about the pathology in a few days. But he said everything looked good and he got it all and my bowels, etc were clean. I am sore and bruised and my stomach feels like it is going to fall off! I will be reading your notes later when I can sit longer. I know you both were writing. I am praying for you Dodi, I know you have a big day tomorrow. Thank you both for caring and letting me know that I am not alone!Love ya!Theresa
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I had my surgery on July 20th 2007 so it will be 2 years this summer. The only thing I noticed that when I walk around the Mall for long periods of time, shopping my pelvic area seems to ache. Could be my weight. I am overweight (working on that now, Ive lost 11 lbs in the past 2 weeks!) So did they take your ovaries too? It must have laprascopic if you dont have one large incision? Yes definitely hard to get muscle tone back! I haven\'t gotten that back, although I didn\'t have a flat tummy to start with!
So you are a real test to see how this thing goes in the long run!
My pelvic area already ached like that, and with my back pain, I stopped walking so much, but maybe it won\'t be so bad. Have to take note of it later.
They took the ovaries too. The doctor called it a robotic surgery, but when I looked up pictures of hysterectomies it looks like laprascopic.
I did not have a flat tummy either to start with, so this will be a challenge. But I am hoping that if I don\'t have all those \"female\" problems, maybe I can do some exercising. Everytime I tried before something would give me a problem. So I stopped completely.