Message fromEmma one week post op and what a tough week it's been! From a hospital bed hooked up to machines to a hotel bed. I had a brutally honest conversation with the surgeons last Wednesday in which I told that my insides were worse than any of us could ever have imagined - there wasn't a single bit of my bowel that wasn't stuck to my back, my bladder was practically stuck upside down with adhesions and they had no choice but to cut part of my ureter out and put a large stent in between my kidneys and bladder which will need removing in another op before I'm allowed to come home.
The "remnant" which actually looked like an enlarged ovary was buried deep underneath my intestines and was stuck solid to my pelvic wall and had two cysts attached to it that were bleeding.
The surgeons had to spend over five hours just unpicking the adhesions and putting everything back where it should be and I was told that I was actually lucky to be alive as every single one of my organs was starting to shut down - that was hard to hear! I also had my appendix removed so that there was no way it could cause any need for surgery in the future - what none of us were expecting at all was that it was actually already causing big problems and the pathology report that came back yesterday revealed that I actually had a tumour in it! The most pointless organ in your body and I had a flipping tumour in mine! Yet again I was told that I was lucky to be alive (twice in one week - I'm like a cat!) and that when (not if) it had caused my appendix to rupture it would have killed me. That might also explain why I was so sick on the flight over! So, all of these things considered, I won't be flying home next week but I know I'm in the best place and fingers crossed, once the next operation is over and done with that really should be it! These surgeons really are life savers and the kindestablishment most humblest I've met.
Unfortunately more money needs to be raised to cover extra surgery..