Monday, February 28, 2011

Surgery

My first pregnancy made my belly button pop out *ugh*
My natural hair color showing. As you can see, an ordinary brown color. Here with my (now deseased)purple tortie point siamese Fefferonia Felicia.
It resulted in a navel hernia. But they couldn't perform surgery on it until my bith giving days were over, so I had to wait until we decided we had enough kids :)

I trained hard to get a nice tummy before the surgery and brought big "before pictures" of my navel to the doctor.
Usually this small hernia is performed with a Laparoscopic surgery, but NO, I got the butcher from the local slaughter house to carve my insides out.
It just pissed with blood after! And the pain!
After a few weeks I could remove the patch and you can just imagine my shock since I didn't know he made such a long scar. I think I cried for a day when seeing this pig snout staring back at me. And I who even told him to be extra careful since I'm a model :(

Aaany who; since then I've had problems with it. Don't know what it is, but everytime I wear something fitted over it I get horrible pain after a few hours. It's like someone pushes a needle into my navel. You can just imagine my pain when wearing a corset all day at the M'era Luna festival...
Even when I do situps, so I haven't done any for some time now...so now my back problems are back (I need to do situps because of a bad back).
It's a catch 22.

But a couple of weeks ago I went to a new doctor because I can't live like this - I need to be able to wear corsets! And now he called and said he'd try to open me again and cut a bit. It might or might not work, but I'm willing to give it a try! He said it's because I don't have any fat around my navel. Haha, so I can either fatten up or do a new surgery?

7 comments:

  1. Oh, that sounds so awful! I really hope you get better and your navel will be okay again... I couldn't imagine not wearing corsets anymore either!

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  2. Hmmm...
    why not give it a try?
    If I understand you right you don´t need to be "fat" just fatten up a bit! If this don´t work you can do the surgery and loose the extra kilos easily with montignac again. I would try first because surgery got always lots of risks, health over look, right?
    Just give it a thought!

    Much love and kisses!

    <3

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  3. How big is your scar? Do you have pics?

    As someone who has seen hundreds of hernias fixed, a good percent of then umbilical hernias, I find it odd for such a large scar, especially on such an in-shape individual. I have seen people have to have their belly button closed shut, but that is a different story!
    Did he say why he didn't do it laproscopically?
    Even without a lap procedure, the scar would normally be hidden inside the belly button.

    Sorry to hear it didn't turn out for you.

    How far are you out of surgery? It takes a while to heal and for the pain to go away because they have to take a large bite of the muscle to close the hernia. Some people have reoccuring pain (and may need further surgery) if they had a suture pinching.

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  4. My friend had the same problem and as it turned out she had endometriosis. Check that first.
    She had the same symptoms you described and was even worse after surgery.

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  5. if this could help you...I'm as tall as slim as you. consider I'm 31 years old and I have no children yet...but I had a laparoscopic surgery 2 years ago and I always feel something hurting me inside my belly, especially when I'm close to my period or when weather is changing.. I think it's a consequence of the laparoscopy

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  6. and of course,I suffer endometriosis and I had ovaric cyst (something big like an orange!)

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