Surprise!

Suprarpubicatheteristicexpialidocious!
Even though the sound of it
Is something quite atrocious
If you say it loud enough
You'll always sound precocious
Suprarpubicatheteristicexpialidocious
Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay....

So surgery went as expected. All five hours of it. My pelvic organs were repaired, removed and reattached. If you want the big words here ya go. I had supracervical hysterectomy, bilateral salpingectomy with ovarian preservation, an abdominal sacrocervicopexy, align pubovaginal sling, a colpoperineorrhaphy and (here comes the surprise I told you about) a suprapubic cystotmy under direct cystoscopic guidance.

Sounds impressive huh? Oh, what is that suprapubic surprise thing? Well, after all of that fixing up, things down in the nethers are pretty swollen so peeing is out of the question for now and my bladder needs retraining. That's right I'm in potty training. Anyhow, what I have is a catheter that exits my body just above my pubic bone. It's how I...um...go now until I can go on my own. Neat huh? Told Mike that it's too bad we can't go on a canoe trip. We'd make good time without me having to answer the call of nature all the time.

So, there you have it...SURPRISE! Um diddle diddle diddle um diddle ay....

More later when there aren't so many pain meds on board.

Peace and love and things and stuff,
Karen