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Charlotte Gronke
March
2004
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Tubal reversal Mar 5, 2004
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March 2004
My husband and I arrived in McAllen around 7:00 pm on Wednesday
night, March 3, 2004. We checked into our motel room at Fairwinds
Executive Inn. My surgery wasn't scheduled til Friday, March 5, but
when we got up Thursday morning I called Dr. Levi and asked him if
he thought there might be a way of them getting me in that evening
sometime and he told me that if I had not eat anything since the
night before, then come on to the hospital that morning and they
would do the surgery that morning. I was so excited. I couldn't
hardly wait to get there but I was also nervous the whole way there.
We got to the hospital and they showed us to my room. I was put in
room #1. The rooms are very small but very nice and clean. We were
very impressed. A nurse came in and asked us questions to fill out
our paperwork, got our signatures and within a few minutes they were
in there putting in my IV. It wasn't long after that they come in
and put my surgery cap and booties on and got me into the
wheelchair. They left me sitting in front of the nursery window for
a few minutes cause they were having to clean up the operating room
from just performing a C-section. While sitting in front of the
window, I got to see the new baby that had just been born. That got
me even more excited because I knew that in a few months I may end
up with one of those.
Within a few minutes they took me on to the operating room and got
me onto the table. They had me turn on my side into the fetal
position so they could do my epi. They put some medicine in my IV
and from that point on, I didn't remember my epi, my catheter being
put in or nothing. A little while after that I woke up and I was
already during the middle of surgery. I was in and out of it the
whole time. My husband taped the surgery. I'm really glad he taped
it for me to watch. At first it felt kind of awkward watching it and
knowing that was me laying there cut open like that but it gives me
something to look back on.
If I had it to do again, I would go back to Mexico for a tubal
reversal all over again. I had a wonderful experience there. After
we got out of surgery Dr. Levi was explaining to me that they did
find a lump of tissue that they took off of my uterus that they
think could be endometriosis and said I needed to bring it back here
and get it checked out by my doctor to have it tested and be sure.
And he wanted me to come back in May for and HSG test to check my
tubes. Well we got back and I called to find out how much it would
cost to have the tissue checked and there was no way we could afford
it and so we decided that we would just go ahead and take our
chances of trying to conceive anyway and if it is meant to be then
it will happen. If we try for several months and nothing happens
then we said we may go then and try to have an HSG performed. But
we're just going to leave it up to God for now.
Charlotte Gronke
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