Things are moving quicker than I thought - Friday morning, I got a call from the plastic surgery department, who had an opening and saw me that afternoon. She thinks I'm a good candidate for the panniculectomy (basically, taking the excess flesh from below my belly button to my groin out - after 140 lbs, there's a lot of excess flesh there, which is one of the reasons why it's so hard for them to get an absolute idea of what Hank is up to, I think). I'm still not sure whether they're going to try to do the hysterectomy at the same time, or if it's going to be two different surgeries, but at least we're moving forward.
Due to the position of my hernia, she wants to have a general surgeon available in case it's involved. So, I'm going to be seeing my gyn/onc on March 21st at 8:00, and then I've got an appointment with the general surgeon at 10:15, so I'm hoping to have a better idea of time frame/what's involved after that. (More to come...)
It was kind of funny - she started out with "Now, I'm sure you don't know much about a panniculectomy", at which point I said "No, we're pretty familiar with this procedure - we've already had a dry run" (although mom insists there was nothing dry about it.)
The timing could be better here - I've got my goddaughter's wedding on April 12th and my grandmother's 96th birthday party May 13th that I was hoping to go to, but it's not looking good to be able to make both of them. (Still holding out hope for the wedding though - I don't think things are going to be moving that fast, but then again, I'm still in whiplash from coming out of limbo that quickly.)
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