Your very welcome pollo......

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.