There's a Hole in My Belly Button

I had a laparoscopy last Thursday, and I'm finally working up the courage to remove the bandages and see what's going on in there. My secondary incision looks okay--or as okay as voluntarily created hole in your abdomen can ever really look--but the main incision, the one in my belly button, is still freaking me out a bit.

Anyway, the good news about the lap is that there's nothing wrong with the plumbing--no tubal occlusions, adhesions, etc. Of course that's also the bad news. I was hoping for some easily fixable little problem that could be surgically repaired and--BAM!--I'd get pregnant. But alas, that is not the case. My doctor--we'll call him Dr. S--found some endo which they removed, and he said that might positively impact my fertility, but who really knows. Is it wrong to hope for slightly more decisiveness after a surgical procedure?

The next thing for us will be injectables and IUIs--assuming that I don't get my period before my injectables class (1/29) and my follow up visit with my doctor (1/30), which is unlikely. So, if I miss that window, maybe we'll do one more round of Clomid, my 5th. Let the good times roll.

Since I'm post-lap for the rest of this cycle, I hardly know what to do with myself. Most of the time I'm obsessing in the 2WW, but without that tried and true activity this month I have time on my hands. But I also have this new blog. So look out.

Comments

[Julie]

You're a braver woman than I it was weeks before I could even begin to think about looking at the incisions from my lap. Even now I don't like to touch them. They're...squishy.

[Lisa]

Thanks Julie. Squishy is exactly the right word...not something one likes to say about one's belly pretty much ever.

[Karen]

Time for you to read "Fertile vs. Infertile", by Dr. Toth and make yourself an appointment to go see him. He is in NY and is very successful curing couples suffering with infertility.