Saturday, March 22, 2008

Surgery...

On Thursday I will be having a procedure called a Nissan Fundoplication as described here. I have been dealing with acid reflux since I was pregnant with Grant. It got worse with each pregnancy and I've been taking Nexium twice a day for a long time. I'm still having problems and they can't increase the medication so this is the next step. Since November I've had ultrasounds, CT scans, endoscopy, and manometry done. I will be in the hospital 2-3 days and on a liquid diet for 2 weeks. I hope to get a lot of knitting done. The only concern I have is the nausea after surgery. I hope they give me lots of drugs to counteract this.

I'll try to update my blog again before Thursday and hopefully will be feeling better by the following Monday. Happy Easter!

4 comments:

yellowdogknitting said...

My Mom had this surgery a few years ago, she was very glad she had it. It opened a whole to world of foods she could eat again! How long are you going to be in? Do you want visitors?

yellowdogknitting said...

Jeez I hate when I assume there are no typos and hit "publish"!!!!

Dianne said...

I'm sending healing thoughts your way!

Karen said...

My thoughts will be with you. I know the surgery will go smoothly and you'll be back to 100% in no time flat!!