Thank you Joel’s girl I’m so grateful to you. I feel really confident being a patient with Cooper he has been very kind to me and called the day after my initial consultation to check I was ok, having noted how shocked I was after our discussion. I have a few other questions spinning around in my head:
- Is the operation done like a laparoscopy (key hole) or is there a larger incision made? Will I be ok with stairs?
- Do you mind me asking, during your operation did they remove Endo from the bladder, bowel etc all in one go? Was your Bowel surgeon Professor Solomon?
My surgery was able to be by keyhole, I had four small incisions in total, but truly they were no problem, caused me no pain at all, which has not always been the case in my other 9 surgeries.
The first surgery proved to be longer and more time consuming than Cooper had expected and although the bowel surgeron (Dr Matthew Morgan) was on stand-by he was held up in other surgeries and couldn't make it to do the bowel bit. Cooper was very apologetic but I needed to have another operation ten days later to complete the surgery. Ten days later Cooper found more endo and Morgan did his bit on the bowel then. I vaguly remember the 1st taking 4 hrs and the 2nd over 5.5hrs.............so it must have been a big job I suspose.
Before the 1st surgery Cooper told us that he suspected bowel involvment but couldn't be sure and wanted Morgan on stand-by. He said that he does this often and is right in 1 out of 4 cases but prefers to be prepared. What tests if any have you had done to confirm any bowel involvement ???
If I can make some suggestions in preparation for your surgery. Do some light cooking, soups etc and freeze them. You won't be able to stomach much more for a week or so. I also enjoyed puree vegetables that I could add gravy or similar to. If I knew what to expect I would have been more prepared as I didn't feel up to all the time-consuming cooking when I got home.....just a thought.
. I feel really confident being a patient with Cooper he has been very kind to me and called the day after my initial consultation to check I was ok, having noted how shocked I was after our discussion. I have a few other questions spinning around in my head:
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