Things I didn't sign up for...

I had my surgery on Friday. Hysteroscopic Polypectomy.

We got to the hospital at 6:00am and signed some paperwork. It's a little unnerving to read that one of the side effects of General Anesthesia is waking up during the procedure and failure to come out of it. Still, I signed my permission...

I told the anestheisologist that my last surgical procedure came with a lot of vomiting, so she gave me a medicine that was supposed to curtail the nausea. Then she shot something into my IV that made me wonderfully light-headed...They wheeled me into the operating room and had me get onto the table. She injected something else into my IV and the next thing I knew, a very kind male voice was telling me to wake up.

As soon as I was coherent enough to tell him I had to pee, they wheeled me into another room to continue waking up. They gave me toast and popsicles and after a half hour of trying to keep it all down, I threw up anyway. The nurse decided I'd gotten my color back and could go home.

I slept all afternoon.

Fortunately, Jen had made us her famous Brown Sugar Chili, which was fantastic. I called my parents and let them know I was okay.

I slept most of Saturday, and just happened to pick up my cell phone when my friend Gail stopped by with dinner and a cake-wreck. We had planned to go to the book signing, but I couldn't make it.

Sunday, I went to church, which was great, but tiring. I started a period since I'd been off the pill for two days.

I went to work this morning, and was fine until about 1:30, when I had a lot of pain and some clotting. I called the clinic and they informed me they'd had some difficulty during the procedure and that a bit of pain and clotting was to be expected.

Fantastic.

The "best" part is that due to the surgery, only pads for the next two weeks. Hopefully it won't be two weeks...I shudder at the thought.

I took some vicodin when I got home and slept this afternoon and am heading to bed soon. I'll see how I feel in the morning, and may work from home tomorrow.