When the anesthesia started to wear off, I was in more pain than I expected. It's a lot worse on the right side where the cyst was removed. The Vicodin has been helping though. I'm much better today and am looking forward to taking a shower later, but I think I'll be some degree of uncomfortable for a while.

Because she was going to be in the OR when I woke up from surgery, I chose to have my GYN leave a message about her findings on my VM rather than discuss them with my husband, who wouldn't understand her. Unfortunately, the VM got cut off, so there's some gaps in my knowledge.

Usually the little Nexplanon birth control implant that gets placed in the upper arm gets removed in the office. I've had two removed and have walked out with only bandaids, but for some reason I woke up from surgery with a HUGE bandage on the site and no post-op info or directions about it. I'll remove the bandage before I take a shower today to see what I'm dealing with there.

In addition to having the cyst removed and getting my tubes tied, I had a colposcopy, where the GYN can take a good hard look at your cervix with something called a colposcope, because I had an abnormal PAP smear about a month ago. I know that the she took 6 biopsies because she saw abnormalities, but that's about where the message got cut off, so that's all I know.

Boy, do I wish I could have heard the whole voice mail!!! I called the GYN's office to let them know I didn't get the full message. When they called back they said she was out of the office, but should get back to me Monday.
My post-op is scheduled for the 20th, but I'm sure the pathology results will be back well before then.

I'm feeling pretty numb at the moment.