Surgery update

Good news! The RE doing the surgery (I'll call him Dr. Thorough) was just that -- thorough, descriptive and helfpul. He had already planned on doing the lap/hyst, so there was no need to convince him of it. Apparently, there is still some question about whether or not my uterus is septate, subseptate or bicornuate, so the lap is the best way to go. This was the only thing that seemed to make G worried; he asked the doc whether an MRI would have been more definitive and when the answer was no, still seemed skeptical. I think just the notion of his wife having surgery when there is a possibility that it might not help (i.e., if I was bicornuate) bothers him a little. I feel ok with it, oddly, as lap/hyst is the gold standard from everything I've read, and is probably the only way to do "due diligence" in getting this fixed, if it's correctable.

Surgery is 12/13, at 2 pm (unless they move me up, of course). Clear liquids six hours before, cytotec pill you-know-where the night before (I think, anyway; prescription's in the car) and I get to do a certain type of "prep", if you get my drift. (Oh joy.)

Dr. Wonderful will decide during surgery whether I'll need a balloon catheter (apparently this is based on how much of a septum they haev to remove) and whether I'll need to be on estrogen will depend on whether I have the catheter. I'll then have a sonohystogram sometime post-op (probably a month or so) to make sure we're "right as rain."

All in all, I'm pleased with the way this went, and am now ready to officially kick 2005 all the way into the next decade.