Update about Jenny's surgery

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Jenny had her surgery yesterday, and it went well. I'm glad they could do laparoscopic surgery, since it's more of a minor surgery that way. She has three little incisions. They're not big at all though. This surgery is often out-patient, but sometimes they'll keep women in the hospital for a night or two for observation. It just depends on the severity, any complications or potential complications, and seriousness of the surgery. They decided to keep Jenny overnight. She got to come home early this afternoon. They kept her for observation because of her history of reproductive type problems and because she had a lot of scar tissue and stuff that they had to remove from different areas. So they went all over her entire pelvic region looking for and removing adhesions and scar tissue. It was all over. They removed it from her uterus, ovaries, fallopian tubes, and parts of her pelvis wall. Sorry if all of that is TMI.

She should be ok to move around a little in a few days, but she'll definitely need some help the first little while. That's ok, I'm more than happy to do anything I can to help. I took off the next week of work, and told them I might need to extend that time off depending on how it goes. She won't be totally recovered for 2 to 3 weeks, if I remember right. That's not too long, but it still sucks.

And of course there's my semi-selfish male-minded reason I'm excited for her full recovery: sex. Like I wrote about before, we have still been having sex the past few months...it has just had to be very vanilla, because it otherwise it hurts her. So I'm excited for our sex lives to go back to normal within the next months. At least I hope that happens!

I'm really hoping that the surgery will allow her to have an easier time getting pregnant and have less miscarriages. Maybe now we'll actually be able to have another baby. So that's an exciting prospect of it all.

But anyway...Jenny is doing well. There were no complications or anything. She has just been resting a lot. She's really fatigued, and told me she's "woozy". I can tell she's definitely not a pill popper because she's always stumbling when she's walking around on the stuff. I think the pain killers have helped with the pain a lot though. She needs them.

I'm glad pain killers are something she has never had a problem with. She doesn't really like the way they make her feel, and she sometimes takes even less than her prescribed dosage. She takes ibuprofen when she can, and only uses the prescription opiate pills when ibuprofen isn't enough. It's crazy how much different she treats pharmaceuticals than my brothers and I. The fact that she doesn't take them all and has leftovers is foreign to us. I'm very happy that she's not like that though. Not happy about the fact that they make her feel sick, but happy about the fact that she doesn't abuse them or even think of abusing them. Even though she doesn't use them all, I would NEVER take them from my wife, or from anyone I know really needs them for legit purposes. Now that I've been clean from everything for so long I wouldn't even have the desire to take them from anyone. Even when I was a complete fiend, when I would try to get my hands on anything I could, that was a line I didn't cross...you don't steal from family, friends, loved ones, or people who have a genuine need for the stuff. EVER. But the extra pills she has around do not even bother me. I'm not even phased by their presence. That may seem like something small, but it's a pretty big and pretty pleasing landmark thing for me.

Anyway, back to Jenny. She's kind of all over the place when she walks around and she's obviously not all there right now, haha. Just really hazy. I'm sure that will subside a bit tomorrow.

I'm sure I wrote some stuff that doesn't make sense, or I'm probably all over the place, but I'm running on hardly any sleep, so I'm out of it. If it's bad, at least it's still readable haha.

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PS: B's birthday party was on the 17th, and it went great. More about that later. I'm just too tired and out of it to write anything else right now. I will soon though.