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left TL surgery on 1/24/07
Sun, 01/14/2007 - 20:36Topic: Surgery and Devices
I am going in on the 24th for a left temporal lobectomy grid placement and mapping and they will remain until febuary 2nd. If my speech isn't in the way, they will remove my left hippocampus on the Feb. 2nd. I have been reading and speaking to some of you and appreciate your support. Chumtochatwith, thank you for your advice on the insulin pump. I have shown my husband how to use it, so hopefully he can help with it when I come home. How are you doing now?
Did anyone that went thru surgery feel up to company in the hospital, can you even talk after surgery or will I be too confused? anything as to what I can expect in the hospital would be greatly appreciated. I was told I will be there for about 5 days after the removal of the hippocampus provided they can do it. It depends on the mapping.
Mulleca
Comments
Re: Re: left TL surgery on 1/24/07
Submitted by Jonathan David on Wed, 2007-01-17 - 00:15
I had Left TL Surgery on 11/17/06. I give the glory and praise to god for healing my body and blessing the surgery to go well. I had really bad headache after surgery but god brought me through those. After the third week, I doing some of the basic things I did before having surgery, and this Friday coming up would be my ninth-week since surgery. I give the god glory praise for how far he brought me and I have not had a seizure after surgery. I pray that everything goes well.
Re: Re: Re: left TL surgery on 1/24/07
Submitted by mulleca on Sat, 2007-01-20 - 22:22
I too am a Christian and am on many prayer chains and have total peace about the surgery. The Lord had been preparing me since Last spring about the whole journey and has told me to let Him do the driving. I am in the passenger's seat and need to fully trust Him. So that is what I am going to do as of January 24th when they put the grids in and then on Febuary 2nd when they take them out and hopefully they can do the resection of the brain. Keep me in your prayers. Mulleca from Minnesota
Re: left TL surgery on 1/24/07
Submitted by chumtochatwith on Tue, 2007-01-16 - 12:30
Hello Mulleca, I am so glad to hear that you got your date! Good luck and I hope things go well for you! I am actually doing wonderfully. I have be totally seizure free since the surgery so I am just so happy! To be honest, I wasn't up to any company whatsoever while I was in the hospital. I hardly even knew that my hubby was there lol. They had me quite medicated so what can you expect right? I wasn't up to much conversation while in hospital. I wouldn't say it was because of confusion but because of pain and nausea. I just wanted to sleep it off and wake up feeling better. I was in the hospital for five days after surgery. Once I got home, I didn't do much for about three weeks. I just wanted to sleep but this ended up interrupting my sleep patterns so that was just another thing that I had to get back to normal. Good, I am glad that I could help. He will feel better too knowing that he is doing it correctly. Let me know how it goes okay? Best wishes my friend! xoxoxoxo