Dr. Albee is very compassionate and understanding. After dealing with some doozies for doctors, I'm glad that I made the decision to come see him. He and his assistant Dr. Yeung are wonderful. The rest of the office staff is very friendly and compassionate. My appointment was at 7 am and it ended at 9:30. Jeff and I got a lift over from the CEC to Northside Hospital by Dr. Yeung.
I was so exhausted by the time I got up to the surgical waiting area that I was resting my head on Jeff's shoulder. Dr. Yeung was upstairs with us and went to check on when I could get that IV started. I was finally called back and after filling out paperwork, I got the IV put in.
I was given reglan and prevacid beforehand plus they gave me something in the IV to calm me down. I don't remember too much except Dr. Yeung was there with me and gave me my teddy bear who has gone through my 2 other surgeries with me. I held him tight as I went under.
Jeff got 6 phone calls from the OR...some times it was Dr. Albee, the other times it was a nurse telling him what was going on to keep him up to date on things. When surgery was finally over, Dr. Albee saw Jeff and gave him the pictures that he took. He said that I had described my pain very well and every where that I felt like I had endo there was endo present in those areas...every single place. When I learned about this from Jeff, I didn't think that I had described my pain adequately enough.
They used Adept to prevent adhesions. They found lesions on my diaphragm, uterus, cervix, under my liver, my appendix didn't look healthy, and more. I lost my uterus, my cervix, my appendix, my left ovary and 50-60% of my right ovary.
I spent the night Monday night and wasn't released from the hospital until 9:30 last night. The cab ride back was pretty bad.
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