State of the me
Nov. 16th, 2010 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichThe procedure went just fine and I came home and went to sleep - for about 10 hours! That anesthesia kicked my hinney, it did. And my throat hurts. (Which will be addressed as soon as my youngest gets off from work and can buy some orange sherbert/vanilla ice cream [creamsicle) swirl for me - I'm driving him to the store but he's doing the shopping so I don't have to try to walk too far.)
So the doctor (who was cute as a button and could have easily been a TV doctor rather than a real one) said he didn't know what it was in there, but it definitely has to come out. Some sort of mass about the size of a tangerine (6.6x6.3cm) that is half-in and half-out (they think) of my stomach. He thinks it is "heading towards the liver, but not in it" or somesuch but he and the other doc who did the first endoscopy are baffled about what it might be. They also keep mentioning "swollen lymph nodes" and wrinkling their foreheads, but there's been no information about what that's supposed to be about.
All the biopies so far test negative for cancer. They did a deeper-cell one today and have sent it off for testing but are pretty sure that I'm clear. So I will be getting that removed, along with my gallbladder, sometime in the next couple of months. Ugh. I'm doubting that they'll be doing this one lapiscopically, so I'm kinda dreading the scar. Fat bodies don't handle scars well - they pucker and look really ugly. I don't really have enough time to fast myself into smaller before the surgery.
But heck, it beats the alternative, eh? It could have been much, much worse. And I don't have kidney stones, gout, arthritis, diabetes or asthma, so really - I am so not going to complain. This is, basically, an 'easy fix' and then it's done. And because none of them are House, I am not real worried about what they'll be doing while I'm unconcious. :)
So the doctor (who was cute as a button and could have easily been a TV doctor rather than a real one) said he didn't know what it was in there, but it definitely has to come out. Some sort of mass about the size of a tangerine (6.6x6.3cm) that is half-in and half-out (they think) of my stomach. He thinks it is "heading towards the liver, but not in it" or somesuch but he and the other doc who did the first endoscopy are baffled about what it might be. They also keep mentioning "swollen lymph nodes" and wrinkling their foreheads, but there's been no information about what that's supposed to be about.
All the biopies so far test negative for cancer. They did a deeper-cell one today and have sent it off for testing but are pretty sure that I'm clear. So I will be getting that removed, along with my gallbladder, sometime in the next couple of months. Ugh. I'm doubting that they'll be doing this one lapiscopically, so I'm kinda dreading the scar. Fat bodies don't handle scars well - they pucker and look really ugly. I don't really have enough time to fast myself into smaller before the surgery.
But heck, it beats the alternative, eh? It could have been much, much worse. And I don't have kidney stones, gout, arthritis, diabetes or asthma, so really - I am so not going to complain. This is, basically, an 'easy fix' and then it's done. And because none of them are House, I am not real worried about what they'll be doing while I'm unconcious. :)
