I had my surgery to fix my massive (or giant depending on how my surgeon chooses to describe it on any given day) hiatal hernia a couple of weeks ago. You think once you've had a few surgeries that you have recovery nailed and yet somehow I always seem to forget that surgeries and procedures are different from each other. One thing they do seem to have in common is that recovery is not linear. I know this and yet I always seem to be surprised by it. I can't fence jump my way

Things have moved along since my last post. I'm actually going into surgery tomorrow but more on that later. Just as I was starting to get a bit stressed out and impatient for my renal scan results, I received a telephone appointment to discuss them with my urologist. I'm glad I didn't have to trek back to the hospital to get the results. I have really started feeling exhausted from so many hospital trips, diagnostic and blood tests. The renal scan results confirmed what the

"I feel like something bad is going to happen to me. I feel like something bad has happened. It hasn't reached me yet but it's on its way" This post is probably going to be a bit up and down, like my hormones because perimenopause is so. much. fun. A lot of hospital-ing has happened since I last posted over a month ago. Actually, the same day that I made my last post I had one of the worst pain attacks. The pain was so intense and prolonged that I repeatedly had to go to the

I'm back with my latest missive from the medical trenches. Buckle up, this is going to get emotional. When last we met I was just a few days into my post-surgery recovery. So let's rejoin our tale from there. Get a cuppa, and let us begin... Post-op recovery and additional investigations I expected to feel discomfort and pain while I recovered from the surgery but I don't think I appreciated how exhausting it was going to be, especially as I had had two laparoscopies before,