I Got Through Surgery By Myself!

[bell]

So, last week I started having abdominal pains and when they kept going and not getting any better I went to urgent care, and then to the ER, where they poked and prodded me and hooked me up to machines and whatnot. While I have family and friends in the area, I didn't want to bother them for such a simple surgery, so while I told them I was in the hospital, told them that they didn't need to come by.

One of the doctors was obsessed with the fact that I might be pregnant and kept asking questions about sex and wouldn't let it go... and was started to really trigger me until I said, "I have PTSD from an assault..." and then that was the last question anyone asked me about it. I just laid there in that stupid gown feeling ashamed while this bro doctor had zero sensitivity to the possibility that it might have been a looong time.

At that point I was super scared that I was going to do something under the anesthesia after being triggered, but was totally okay! (I even asked if I did anything weird while I was in the recovery room!)

Now I'm home and getting better and well, just amazed that even while I was triggered I got through it alone and could really see the work that I have done in therapy has paid off! Yeah! Previously I would have broken down about being alone and would have massively been triggered by the doctor's questions! Yay! Success!

And... one of my nurses even asked me about my triggers for PTSD because he wanted to make sure he didn't trigger me, which was so comforting to hear after the insulting bro doc!

 

[Bedbug]

Well done, you!

 

[digger]

Well done :)

 

[Everhopeful]

Excellently done dear Bell. I could cringe at some of the bedside manner of people in the medical profession! Write a textbook about what not to do and say - and some of them go and do just those things!

 

[bell]

Thanks, all! I'm just so overjoyed to see that therapy is working, really!

And that admitting I had PTSD (which I wasn't sure about) was a good thing, as it both stopped that line of inquiry and had my nurse take care to ask me questions about my triggers. So, if any of you are ever wavering about mentioning it while in medical care, I'm happy to report that it really helped things for me last week!

 

[kahlan]

Yay you! Big accomplishment :D

 

[StarChild]

Really well done Bell, congrats! So glad everything went well, and that you're now home and full of joy and pride!:tup:

Would you mind me asking, what it was that you had?... But of course feel free to not answer my question.:oops:

 

[bell]

Thanks, all!

@SweetLullaby, I had my appendix out, so it wasn't anything too terribly invasive, as it was laparoscopic and just meant 3 tiny incisions. But still... success! :)

 

[StarChild]

But still... success!

Of course SUCCESS!:joyful: :singing: What else? :wideeyed:

Dear Bell, I truly hope, my question didn't gave you a wrong impression. I was just curios. And I want to assure you, that you managed the whole situation absolutely brilliant! Gentle hugs, if accepted. ((((Bell)))

 

[DMerish]

Whew! I'm so glad you took care of yourself physically, emotionally and mentally Bell. I agree with SweetLullaby - You absolutely desrved to feel joy and pride for the work you've done. Rest up, Bell - you'll "be back" before you know it!

Keep taking good care of yourself!

Drew

 

[Kas_Can_Fly]

One of the doctors was obsessed with the fact that I might be pregnant

I had an ambulance crew member very similar back in December, after both my and my mother's repeated insistence that I couldn't be and him not quite sure how my mother could know. He kept asking after he discovered I had PTSD (because of the medication I'm on and what it was prescribed for) and after I had to clarify that PTSD meant Post-traumatic stress disorder. He kept asking and I ended up saying that I hadn't had sex in 6 years and my anxiety was so bad I never left the house on my own. He then started joking that even he'd had more luck than that but mostly dropped it after that, then about ten minutes later I think the meaning finally sunk in, but if I'd known at the beginning was that all he wanted me to do was a pregnancy test, I'd have rather just done it. :meh:

I have surgery coming up though and though initially not worried about it, that's growing. I don't really know if watching the procedure being done on youtube was a good idea, but what's done is done.

Congrats on the success physically and emotionally from the surgery being completed with no complications.

 

[billie]

I am glad you stuck up for yourself, geeze the medical profession is a joke. Im also glad your better :)