[Mari]

Kay,

I hope that the kitties give you a break by refraining from jumping on your stomach.

Everyone in my family yelled and cried. We were (are) loud people.
We curse a lot too.

When I am at work or in public I still have to consciously modulate my voice so I do not come across as loud and rude.
Certain curse words, thank goodness, have become more acceptable recently.


M

[OhKay]

Back to my pre-op weight… still swollen, but much less so this morning, and my pain is much better. Advil, no more Vicodin. I went to the BR, so I'm more comfortable in that sense as well.

My husband did go to the store for me yesterday
But we're running out of food, and since I'm feeling better and not on pain meds anymore, I think I'll venture out to do some proper grocery shopping tomorrow. I don't carry the bags anymore anyway.

My GYN didn't call me back yesterday… I'm ******!!! I put another call in to her office this morning. I'm going to ****ing flip out if she doesn't call me back today.

I narrowly escaped another morning walk-over from Rocky. I was awake enough to hear the little sounds he makes when he does it, and was able to roll over on my side before he got to my stomach, so he just rubbed up against my body instead


I grew up with a lot of swearing too, Mari. It took me a long time to control it, but I learned to do it pretty well with the occasional slips. I have almost zero control over it now that I stopped working and my husband, who works in construction, is my main contact with the outside world. I swear like a truck driver! Some people think it's really funny, others not so much.

[mymorgy]

i used to really swear ...i got it from going to a girl's school. lately it is reappearing. I like the f word

[Dmom3005]

I'm so glad you feel better. Please keep working on taking it easy.

Donna

[Mari]

Kay,

It is good to hear that the pain is down. I wish you well in your recovery.

Rocky sounds so cute. How big is he?

M

[OhKay]

Rocky weighs 25 pounds!!! He's 1/2 Maine Coon, looks like it, and is double pawed. Buddy is a 7 pound male all-black domestic short hair, and Dottie is a 23 pound female with medium length fur who looks just like a cow lol. She got out into the hallway when the pizza man came last night, but she got scared, didn't know what to do, and ran back into the apartment lol.

The gynecologist never called me yesterday either. I'm very upset. I didn't leave my cellphone number when I left the last two messages because I expected to be home, but I'm going out today and I don't think they have it. I don't know if I'm going to bother calling back again though. I don't know when the pathology results will be in, but I wonder what I'll have to go through to get the results? I'm very discouraged.

[Dmom3005]

Its usually I think a week before they are ready. Not positive.

Just let them call the house phone, at least that way maybe a
message.

Donna

[Mari]

I did not know that cats can have extra paws:

Maine Coon Cat Video - Maine Coon Curiosities - Polydactyl Maine Coons - YouTube

[OhKay]

Thanks for the video Mari. The kitties were adorable!
Rocky has tiger-like stripes like the first very young kitten. I named him Rocky because his paws were so big when he walked it looked like he was wearing boxing gloves


The gynecologist FINALLY called me back AND she had the pathology results!!! Two of the samples were from cysts (As suspected, I had one on my left ovary as well and it was about 3.5cm) and both were benign. The biopsy of my endocervix was too, and so were the three samples of my cervix which reacted to the contract because of cellular changes that are normal. I'm EXTREMELY relieved!!!
She was able to cut out all of my tubes rather than burn them, so my chances of getting ovarian cancer are greatly reduced now
I guess I did have some adhesions: some around my sigmoid colon that appeared to be congenital, so she didn't touch them, but I had a bit around my right ovary that she was able to remove.
She said I had released two eggs, so had I gotten pregnant this month there was a chance I could have had twins... boy am I glad I was on birth control and was getting fixed!!!
I guess that the Nexplanon removal was the last thing she did, and was hard to remove because the anesthesiologist had the blood pressure cuff on my arm throughout the surgery so it went in deeper and she had to dig it out.

I'm so happy that everything came back okay and I don't have to worry about any of this **** anymore!!!

But...And there's always another but...

I have to do something about my urinary retention (d/t MS) because what I'm doing isn't working anymore. I thought I emptied my bladder before the surgery, but when my GYN cathed me she got an 800cc return (that's a lot) even though I hadn't had fluids for 10 hours beforehand. And the last U/S also showed my bladder is absolutely HUGE now. The GYN mentioned that this is something I have to get taken care of, but I already knew that, and called my neurologist's office to ask for a referral about a month ago.

I used to cath, but when I was in the psych ward following my s/s attempt, I had to have someone within arm's length of me at all times. I was paranoid psychotic and thought everyone was too interested in what I was doing, so I started refusing to do it, and when I got better, I could not physically get the catheter in anymore. I know it's psychological. I don't know if I'll be able to do it or not again now, but I'm going to have to find some way to.

The surgery is over now, and I don't need any further procedures, so there is no sense putting it off any longer. I will call for an appointment today.

[mymorgy]

i looked at some videos ..i didn't know how large they could be...wow-Stewie, a gray tabby Maine Coon, holds the record for world's longest domestic cat. His full name is Mymains Stewart Gilligan and he measured 48.5 inches long (123 cm). That's more than four feet long!