Never a dull moment

For a few weeks I’ve been mentioning to Dean that I think I might need to see a doctor, but due to our financial situation, I was choosing not to.   I just felt like something was wrong, and usually I know my body well enough to know when something is off.   I kept thinking I was having hip pain, on my right side.   I thought if I could get my hip to re-align, and move differently, my back might not hurt as bad, and it would be more comfortable to sit.   This weekend, I woke up in horrible pain, I thought my appendix was bursting or somehow I was in labor with some miracle baby.   I woke up about 4 am and stayed up til around 7 am, until I couldnt stay up any longer and crashed finally from the exhaustion of the pain and fatigue.  We had had several friends who had the flu/stomach bug, so I thought I must just be getting the pre-cursory stomach pains without the nausea, diarrhea or vomiting that went with it, and expected that as the day went on I would.  As the day went on the back and stomach pains worsened and I realized I also had a mass by my thigh that I hadn’t noticed before.    I decided as long as I wasn’t fevered, I probably wasn’t going to die, so I was going to try to wait for Monday to see a doctor.    On Monday, my doctor was busy so I saw another in the practice.  I presented w/ nearly classic appendicitis symptoms, minus the mass in my groin.   So he sent me for a CT of my ab and pelvis along with blood work.   Ironically my appendix did not even bother to show up at all on the CT, but two hernias did, or one, that’s up for debate.   The reading radiologist apparently was so rushed by the stat order to rule out appendicitis, did his job to do so but failed to be consistent in his other findings.   I went to my gyn today, who said the report was nonsense, but that it’s possible there’s a small hernia near my belly button, which is nothing to worry about, but that the hernia in my groin/thigh area, possible resulting from the hysterectomy incision weakening my abdominal wall, needs to be addressed by a surgeon as it could affect my bowels, if it’s not already, which I believe it is.   The CT also shows that the pain I felt over the weekend was also ironically the result of my stupid overly active ovaries, which despite a lack of uterus, felt the need to ovulate this month, and create a large cyst of the sort the gyn says is the most painful of all the kinds that there could be.    So when I thought I was in labor, I was just ovulating.

Point is, I feel really dumb for having chosen to have gotten a hysterectomy in 2008 if now in 2010 I’m still suffering all this pain and will again need surgery to deal w/ the consequences of that bad choice in getting that surgery.   Not sure how things will pan out, but at least as of today, I’ve got a prescription for a pain med that should finally take the edge off the pain.    Have an appt set for next Tuesday to see the surgeon.   Hoping to get surgery set befroe the end of the month as Dean has time off already set for the end of the month as well as we are already at or nearing our out of pocket max for health insurance, but if we wait til after the new year, we’ll have to meet our deductible all over again before insurance kicks in.

I guess if I am going to have surgery again this year, I may as well go ahead and schedule that eye surgery I was putting off too.  Geez, I really thought I was going to be get through til next year without having any more health drama on my end to deal with, then this.   I really could have done without this, especially dreading this one for the pure location of it!   Not my idea of fun!   I think I would have rather already had my appendix taken out, even if it was an emergency than deal w/ a hernia! (or two!)