Cervical Cerclage
Posted by cassie on Sunday, 30 December, 2007 @ 7:07 am
Well it was time for my cerclage last week and as usual, it was a pain in the butt. Add in a toddler and a daddy that doesn’t normally spend just *alone* time with him with me no where around and it became rather exciting. The surgery was scheduled for last Tuesday and the time moved around 4 times. Grr!!!! It went from 9am to 11am to 3pm then finally to 4pm. I sat prepped in OR for 2 hrs until the Doc showed at 5 pm to tell me that he won’t be able to do the surgery after all.
WHAT! Apparently I had a bladder infection that made him nervous doing the surgery in case of infection. Ok, I can understand that. REALLY I can. BUT um….why couldn’t you figure that out before I sat in OR prepped, freezing and starving. You see, you have to fast for the surgery so that means nothing to eat or drink for 8 hrs before hand. Well, since it kept getting changed on me I didn’t get to eat or drink since the night before at about 7pm. On the plus side, Nick and Anthony did really well together so that relieved my mind.
I went in to see the Dr on the 26th and had to do another pee test to make sure the infection was gone. Woo hoo! I’m getting to be known on site at the lab. How sad 
The surgery coordinator told me she’d call me late Wed to let me know about the surgery but the stupid b*tch (yea, she apparently doesn’t like me for whatever reason and now the feeling is mutual) called me after hours on Thursday!!!! to say the surgery was rescheduled for guess what? - Friday and oh be at the hospital by 6am! Yeah no biggie you cow! You wake up a toddler 2 hours before he normally gets up to stuff him in a car and go to the hospital. Not fun!
I’ll save you all the boring details and just say the surgery actually was completed on time and went great! I was out of there by around 1pm and am actually doing ok with recovery. I’ve been put on bed rest until the doc can see me on the 2nd to make sure I don’t develop an infection. A pain in the butt but I’m trying my best to adhere to it. Thank god it’s all over!