Monday, February 28, 2011

Poor Disnee

So things here havent slown down a bit as usual. About 3 weeks ago or so, Disnee started not feeling very good, and had a pain in her side. After a few days of this, we ended up in the ER to check to see if it was her appendix. After lots of needles stuck in her arms, and a CT test and ultrasound, they said everything looked ok, except she has an ovarian cyst. That is probably the problem but we dont know for sure. So we went home...and had a follow up appt with a dr the next week. Pain still was there, and she missed several days of school, and cheerleading. We were getting frustrated and didnt know what to do. The GYN she went and saw said if she takes some medication it should reduce the cyst..and come back in 8 weeks to check on it. So after a few more days of pain, troy and I were so frustrated, and so was disnee. so many tears and missed classes..so on tuesday of last week, she came home early from school again. I decided something has to be done for this poor girl. I called every dr we knew...it so happened that all the dr's were out of the office this week..there were some big conventions and stuff. So now what do we do?? So, thank goodness Troy has a way to pull strings, but he contacted a surgeon he works with here in Centralia, and he was in St Louis at a conference. Troy told him what was going on and what should we do? He said he didnt think it was still the cyst or it wouldnt still be hurting after 10 days. So he said he would come back to town tonight after the conference, and do a diagnostic laproscopic surgery to find out what is going on inside this girl. So...we made Disnee fast the rest of the day, and we took her down about 7pm to the ER. It was soooo busy, they said there were 21 people ahead of us! So Troy took her to the Dr's house...he looked at her and said yes lets do this. So they admitted her to the hospital, and at 9pm she was ready for surgery. Troy was on call this day at work...but he shouldnt be the anesthesia provider for family, so he got a Dr to do it for us. So they took Disnee back and performed this surgery on her. Dr told us that he took the appendix while he was in there, but it didnt look too bad, pretty normal. He also didnt find anything else there, other than the cyst. He didnt want to mess with it, so he left it alone. So now she was in recovery. She was crying as she was waking up from anesthesia...Troy didnt like this part when it was his daughter! but so about 11 pm Troy went home and I stayed the night with her. We had a scary time at 3 am when she passed out in my arms as I was helping her to the bathroom for the first time...not fun. But she was feeling better in the morning. Troy got there and had her walking and eating and ready to go home by 10 am. So she was pretty sore for a few days, still is. She is feeling better and is back to school today. Its times like these that make you super aware of how frail our mortal bodies are. I am so grateful for priesthood blessings and I know Heavenly Father looked out for our family and our sweet Disnee throught this scary time. Thanks to all of our loved ones who offered prayers and thoughts for her as well. We hope she is on the mend and feeling back to normal in the next couple of weeks. Love you all.

4 comments:

Jeanette said...

Poor Disnee! I hadn't heard she was having so much trouble. I'm so glad she is doing better.

Jami said...

Wow - what an ordeal!! Hope she gets feeling better soon:) Sounds like she is one tough cookie, that is a looong time to feel crummy!!!

i'm h.mac said...

i have suffered with ovarian cysts for 16 years. if you ever need any help, call me. my last one lasted 6 months and had me down for 4 once it ruptured.the passage of time has made it so i didn't even have to take a pain pill. seriously, i could write a book on it. mine started when i was 17. email me if you ever need a sounding board, i have had every single kind possible. the pain is off the charts....

Aunt Tiff said...

poor girl!! never fun to go through stuff like that!!