Surgery details.

I know I'm slow with updating this thing. This week did not start off well, with my car being a piece of junk and all. We're in the market for a new car (well not really, but we need one at this point) because hubby needs mine for work. So, we're car shopping. Yuck. Part of it is exciting; picturing myself driving a new vehicle with new buttons, no problems, and that "new car" smell. The other part is not so exciting; not knowing whether I'll be approved for a loan or not, the hike in insurance, the registration process, and oh yeah...the car payments. It has to be done though.

**Update: my dad just told me my radiator is done for. Mind you, this is a radiator I JUST replaced in December 2008. Not even two years old!! So, now I need to figure out how I'm going to pay for a new radiator and how I'm getting to work for the rest of the week. Awesomeness.


Anyways, onto the surgery details. Well, there isn't much to tell at this point but I will tell you what I know as of right now. I was expecting him to say he didn't find anything abnormal. Why would I think that though? Obviously something is "abnormal" or I would have kids already. I was too groggy to understand him when he was explaining it to me while I was still trying to wake the hell up from the anesthesia, but he told my mom too so she explained it the next day.

She said he found a mild case of endometriosis but he removed it. He said I also had a few small cysts on my left ovary, but he removed those as well and didn't think there would be any long term effects from them. He said my HSG was ok and my tubes are clear. That's pretty much all he found. It was certainly a different diagnosis then I had expected. I expected he would at least go back to his original thought of mild PCOS. I certainly didn't think he would say endometriosis, that's for sure.

They did a biopsy to make sure and a few days later, the nurse called to confirm that it was endometriosis. He was quite confident that it was only a mild case, however. I did some research and most websites say the next 6-9 months after a laparascopy is the most fertile time and that something like 80% of women with no other issues got pregnant. Who's to say I don't have other issues, though? I have a follow up appointment on Aug. 24th, so I guess we'll find out then.

So, that's about it. My incisions are pretty much all healed, although I'm still wearing a bandaid on the one at my waistline so my pants don't irritate it. AF was around for like 6 days, but it's gone now and I feel back to my regular old self....mostly.


I will leave you with something funny, yet stupid that I did yesterday. Trust me, if I weren't so furious with my car and my shit luck yesterday, I would never have done this. I may be a natural blonde, but I'm not (usually) a ditz.

Yesterday was when my car first starting giving me problems. I left for work but I could hear my car making a weird noise. There wasn't much I could do though; I had to go to work. I didn't get all of 10 minutes from my house and my tempreture gauge started going over the half point. Not a good sign. I called my dad, who in turn called my husband because my dad had to open the shop he works at and wouldn't be able to come help me.

I had stopped at a gas station before the highway because I needed gas anyway. I turned the car off and it started billowing smoke. Of course, I already knew something was wrong but a couple of dumbass landscapers decided they would point at the smoke as if I couldn't see it with my own two eyes. Morons. Anyway, after I pumped gas, I pulled my car towards the back of the gas station and waited for my husband to get there. While I was waiting, I got out and opened the hood to let the coolant tank ~cool~ down. While I was at it, I remembered my washer fluid was low and every time I got in the car and started it up, it would beep twice at me. Two looooooong, annoying beeps. I remembered I had some washer fluid in my back seat so I grabbed the bottle, opened the washer fluid tank, and poured in the liquid. I filled it all the way up and when I got in and turned the car on later, the annoying beeping had stopped.

On my way home from work yesterday, I pulled the washer fluid lever to clean my windsheild. It was pretty hot yesterday, so immediately the windsheild started to streak. They were pretty nasty streaks though and they wouldn't go away. I vowed right then that I would never by THAT brand again.

Fast forward to a few hours ago. My dad and my husband are outside trying to figure out what's wrong with my friggin car. I was telling them how my car started to smoke again this morning when I stopped for a coffee. Here is how the conversation went between my husband and I about it (for typing sake, "D" is my husband.):

Me -- "I stopped for a coffee, turned the car off, and it started smoking again. I didn't even care, even though people were staring yet again."
D -- "Is that why your windsheild is so streaky?"
Me -- "What? No. It's just really shitty windsheild washer fluid."
D -- "I think that's antifreeze."
Me -- "It's NOT antifreeze. It's leaking, it's not spraying all over the windsheild, hun."
D -- "What washer fluid did you use?"
Me -- "The one in the back seat."
********Husband opens door and grabs the bottle full of blue liquid*******
D -- "You mean this bottle?"
Me -- "Ugh, yeah, it's washer fluid."
D -- "No it's not. It's car wash."


Yep. I put frikken car wash in my washer fluid tank. Brilliant. So, on top of having to buy a new radiator, I now also have to flush the washer fluid tank out....and before anyone else realizes what a dumbass move I pulled. On a brighter note, I don't think my dad, my husband, or I have ever laughed so hard in our lives. Feel free to laugh too...it IS pretty funny, after all. :)