Goodbye to my ovaries. You've done good over the years. Made eggs to allow me to hatch four beautiful babies. But now your purpose is done as you've become a pain filled with cysts, this last being 9 cm! You feed my breast cancer with the estrogen and progesterone you make and that's not acceptable any longer. So I had you cut out and now I'm being thrown into menopause at the young age of 42. The surgery went as well as could be expected. Dr. Boyd was able to use the robot and get through somemscar tissue and adhesions with ease. I went in at 5:30 am for my 7:30 am case and was home by noon. Really only felt like I did 1000's of sit-ups and like something was stuck under my right rib cage. Had issues all day and night especially with pain meds and itching. Took Benadryl 50 mg 30 min prior to taking my Tylenol #3. I had some Percocet left from a previous surgery and thought I would try that to help me sleep comfortably in my bed but I was wrong. Nothing stopped that itching and I was up most of the night, hence the 5:30 blog post. Some of the things I get to look forward to will be hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, weight gain, and mood swings just to name a few. Usually they give women estrogen patches or pills to take to calm down those pesky symptoms but not me! That would rev up my cancer growth. The great news was the 9cm mass on the right ovary was NOT cancer! They sent it off for a frozen section while in surgery and found out before closing me up. So now I'm home until my follow up appt for sure on the 17th and I'm really looking forward to that time with the kids. Especially Avery since he will be leaving the 24th for college.