Dun dun dunnn..... See you in a year, Katie! What are you going to do with yourself not coming into the office all the time?! The words from my doctor this morning. Hyesterctcomy a success. Feeling great. Still having some crazy bowel symptoms and will have to have a follow up with that surgeon and then probably send me to a gastro doc. But I am now restriction free! Can we say POOL! 
No obstruction. Just 5 more days in the hospital.
Because some of you may my know what happened here is a run down of the surgery.
Day 1: surgeon comes in. We talk. I ask him to do a horizontal incision. He says no vertical. I say no horizontal. He wins. I only have 20 min to fret about it before they put me under. I was annoyed but knew he had a plan. Ask where my other doc was and he said he was only going to come in if needed. Go into surgery come out in recovery in A LOT of pain. Naturally. Figured that would happen. But then a magical anesthesiologist came in and did two ultrasound guided pain blocks that worked for 48 hours. I felt like a million bucks. At some point that first day Todd posts on FB that everything went normal and routine and I was doing great. (So I blame a lot of what happened on him!) get to my room and find out the 2nd surgeon did have to be called in because there was a portion of my small intestine that was in a ball wrapped up with a rind around it 😁 yuck. I know. So that surgeon had to un tangle it and fix it. 
Day 2: I felt fabulous.
Day 3: I walked 7,000 steps in laps around the hospital. Finally ate and tolerated food.
Day 4: I was ready to get out of there. Doc said it was ok as long as I knew I needed to take laxatives to get my system fully going. I was game! Released at 12. By 4pm I wasn't feeling great and by 5 I vomited and fell unconscious on the bathroom floor. Woke up to a bathroom full of firemen.
😜 finally got me in the ambulance and off I went back to the hosptial.
Day 5: early morning hours I finally see an ER doc and because of failed attempts to get an IV in he ends up putting an EJ in my neck. I was mortified. It was awful. Painful. Get on the floor and beg the nurses to poke me 1,000 times if it means I can take that thing out. Finally a 4th nurse from L&D was able to get an IV in. Later that day I was given Meds to clear me out. They were successful in less than 2 hours.
Days 6-9 were just sitting days. Waiting for my system to recover. 
All is well now. I'm 6 weeks post op and doing great! Those of you who know about my POTS an interesting note is my HR has decreased significantly since my surgery. Hopefully I'm on the final road to recovery!
Thank you everyone for all your thoughts and prayers. It's been a crazy crazy ride but im hopeful that I am on the road to recovery!
Can't believe the summer is more than half over! I feel like I've been stuck in my bubble for 6 weeks. Ready to get out there and do something!!
Xoxo
