Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Before and After!


I thought you might enjoy seeing these images of my insides taken during surgery! The top 2 and bottom right are before and the bottom left is after. You can see that my intestines are adhered to my abdominal wall, and there are lots of organs and adhesions in places where they are not supposed to be. The bottom left show how the abdominal cavity is supposed to look...

The surgery was a success! They found all of my abdominal and pelvic organs stuck to each other...there was a long band of adhesions from my liver all the way to my appendix. The appendix was pretty diseased, so they removed it. They found 2 ovarian remnants and removed those. They un-stuck everything, returned all organs to their correct anatomical positions, and cleaned it all up in there! I should be feeling much, much better once I am recovered from the actual procedure!

Doctor Sinervo and staff in Atlanta were fabulous, as was the ENTIRE hospital staff at Northside. It was by far the best hospital experience I have ever had. I am so glad I was inspired to find this dr and was able to travel and have this surgery done! I have 2 small incisions on either side of my pelvis, and a pretty large incision in my belly button. I am recovering well...somedays are better than others, but all in all I think I am doing quite well and certainly on the road to being fully recovered! It is interesting that most of what they found was left over and/or due to the previous surgery. No wonder I kept feeling like things were not improving the way I had hoped! But, now they will! And watch out, world! DeeDee with health, vitality and energy?! Unstoppable!

6 comments:

jksfam said...

Wow! Those pictures are pretty interesting! I'm so glad that they were able to "clean" you up! I'm also glad that you were treated so much better than other hospital experiences.

Unknown said...

Yay! I'm so glad your feeling much better!The pics were pretty cool to see!

alisa said...

Wow...those pics were amazing. I can only imagine how much pain you were in before! So glad that you found a wonderful hospital/dr. You deserve much health my friend. You were pretty unstoppable with poor health! You are my hero friend!

Cindi said...

Healthy Dee Dee unstoppable? Kidding, right? I think about how amazing you've always been even WITH all the medical c.r.a.p. you've had to deal with. Might as well just attach a giant red S on all of your clothes now! Super Dee Dee on the scene! You're incredible. Really! And the pictures? Very fascinating.

Christen said...

i love your new page. how did you make those headline thingys, miss smarty pants? happy mother's day! what are your dinner plans for tuesday night? give me your grocery list too. madeline has a cold now. nobody over there got sick from merebear did they?

Noma said...

I certainly am relieved that you are doing much better now and are on the road to recovery my Dee Dee!! I was very worried about you, that is a mother's perogative to worry, you know!! lol It was so good being there with all of you and I just wish I would have done more for you!! You are amazing, just please let others do for YOU for now and you can do for them again later!! I love you very much and look forward to seeing you all again soon!! Love you lots, Mom