Happy Tuesday

This post is a sequel to my last two posts. To make a long story short, I had to have a complete Hysterectomy on Tuesday, December 4th at Medical City Dallas Hospital.  The surgery was scheduled for 4 PM and was to be performed with a DaVinci Robot unless any pathology was noted.  If pathology was noted, a full laparotomy would be done to check surrounding organs and take biopsies. So going into the surgery I didn't know if I was going to wake up hearing if I had cancer or not.  It was not a good feeling!

So I checked into the hospital at 2:30 PM and it ended up that my surgery got postponed until 7:00 PM because there was another doctor still using the DaVinci Robot.  This didn't help my nerves any and to top it off, the Anesthesiologist told me that my EKG was abnormal, which freaked me out!  The EKG Tech retook it twice and it was perfect, so there was a lead not placed in the right place on the first test.

At 6:00 PM someone finally came and took me up to OR Staging Area so that they could get my IV in and I could sign all of the scary papers acknowledging everything that could go wrong during surgery.  The Anesthesiologist then put the "I don't care" shot into my IV and that was all I can remember until I woke up in my hospital room several hours later.

The first thing that I did was look at the spot right underneath my breast bone to see if it had a vertical cut on it.  I was so happy to see that there was no cut!!!  This meant that the surgery was conducted with the DaVinci Robot and that no pathology was found!  The doctor confirmed that they found no cancer and everything went well!  This was the best result that I could have hoped for!

Thank God that things turned out the way that they did!  I also want to thank my family and some special friends for their support during this trying time!  I especially thank my daughter Nicole and my dear friend Tegan Marie Smith, who were so supportive to me during the dark hours I had before the surgery.