On the road to recovery

• My goodness things have been hectic and crazy over this past month. In the past 30 days I have 3 operations, stayed in the hospital for 3 days and had 4 visits to the emergency room. Holy cow, my poor body is exhausted! After having 2 D&C surgeries from loosing our pregnancy, I returned home and resumed my motherly duties but was plagued with horrific back pain.I had only experienced pain like this one time in my life, when I was in labor with Natalie. The doctor assumed that this pain was associated with the normal Recovery from loosing the pregnancy and that it should go away soon. Weeks went by and the pain only got worse and worse until I could no longer take it and I called the doctor once again and she ran some more tests. The diagnosis was a full blown kidney infection so they treated it with antibiotics. That didn't help and the pain continued. I found myself being rushed to the emergency room to now rule out a kidney stone but I left pumped full of morphine and without answers. A few days later, I was back in the ER with more pain and again, they began to run more and more tests but finally we had some answers. After a CT scan and an ultrasound we discovered that not only did I in fact have a kidney stone but I also had 4 cysts on my right ovary (that were small in size) and 1 large cyst on my left ovary that actually began to bleed in on it's self. This cyst was hitting a nerve that was causing tremendous pain in my back and because it had disguised its self as a kidney infection, kidney stone and as possible pain related to the miscarriage, it had gone undiagnosed for so long. After spending 8 hours in the Emergency room on Sunday January 16th, they found the cyst and recommended that I stay in the hospital overnight but I wanted so badly to be at home with my husband and kids so I left and my doctor called me the next day and surgery was scheduled for the following morning, Tuesday January 18th. Dr. Yin went in laporscopically and removed the cyst and was able to spare my ovary! So I am now recovering from the surgery with 3 small incisions that are now closed by stitches. Recovery is painful but not at all as bad as before I had the surgery and its totally tolerable. I think that I have certainly had my fill of hospitals for a while.


















• Since I am beginning to feel much better, I promised the girls that we would bake cookies together. We had a blast but in the mayhem of it all, I didn't add enough flour and the cookies were flat as pancakes. I had to throw them all away but it was completely worth it. I will have to make another batch tomorrow but the girls were great helpers and we had so much simple fun just baking and being together as a family. Afterwards we all sat together and watched a movie. I am grateful to be recovering and to be able to have these wonderful moments with our children!