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Many of you already know this, but I will share it with the entire community today as I have surgery tomorrow. I am having a partial colectomy and a hernia repair tomorrow at Tufts.
I have been sparsely posting here and there not because I do not care,or have not been continually invested in all that goes on and all the successful myectomies, etc etc.. I have read every post everyday over the last several months and share in the triumphs.
The reason for my sparsity is I have been struggling with repeated bouts of diverticulitis and generally not feeling well with some complications from the treatments and medications . It has been decided that it is best to take out the bad part of my colon and to fix my 24 year old hernia. I got that hernia at age 33.. 8 weeks after a c-section to deliver my last child who weighed in at 11 pounds and 1/2 ounce. I was on a family day in Newport RI and fell while walking on a jetty over the ocean. On that day I broke my left arm in 2 and popped the hernia through the incision. The arm has been fixed for 24 years, I am not sure why anyone has let me keep the hernia for so long. So this will be a 2 for one surgery. If all goes well and as planned I should have minimal invasion with laparoscopic procedure for the colectomy and traditional surgery for the hernia repair. I also have to have 2 stents put into my ureters .. something they do so the colon surgeon does not accidentally cut my ureters during the surgery..I guess something that is not uncommon as they are hard to see during the surgery??
So one team will come in from urology and then the colon surgical team. Hopefully I will be home in 4 days if all goes well and as planned.
So the toll seems bit by bit pieces of me have been compromised with how my HCM effects me.. however, tomorrow I will try to get another piece corrected and taken back.
As I close my eyes tomorrow I will be thinking of all the great things that happen here and all the great people you are here at the HCMA message board .
So I will be away .. just for a while.
Thank you in advance for positive thoughts and well wishes.
Pam
I have been sparsely posting here and there not because I do not care,or have not been continually invested in all that goes on and all the successful myectomies, etc etc.. I have read every post everyday over the last several months and share in the triumphs.
The reason for my sparsity is I have been struggling with repeated bouts of diverticulitis and generally not feeling well with some complications from the treatments and medications . It has been decided that it is best to take out the bad part of my colon and to fix my 24 year old hernia. I got that hernia at age 33.. 8 weeks after a c-section to deliver my last child who weighed in at 11 pounds and 1/2 ounce. I was on a family day in Newport RI and fell while walking on a jetty over the ocean. On that day I broke my left arm in 2 and popped the hernia through the incision. The arm has been fixed for 24 years, I am not sure why anyone has let me keep the hernia for so long. So this will be a 2 for one surgery. If all goes well and as planned I should have minimal invasion with laparoscopic procedure for the colectomy and traditional surgery for the hernia repair. I also have to have 2 stents put into my ureters .. something they do so the colon surgeon does not accidentally cut my ureters during the surgery..I guess something that is not uncommon as they are hard to see during the surgery??
So one team will come in from urology and then the colon surgical team. Hopefully I will be home in 4 days if all goes well and as planned.
So the toll seems bit by bit pieces of me have been compromised with how my HCM effects me.. however, tomorrow I will try to get another piece corrected and taken back.
As I close my eyes tomorrow I will be thinking of all the great things that happen here and all the great people you are here at the HCMA message board .
So I will be away .. just for a while.
Thank you in advance for positive thoughts and well wishes.
Pam
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