Hi Dottydotdot,

Welcome to Cancer Chat. I'm sorry to hear you've had a dfficult time recently.

If there are others here with similar experience then hopefully they'll be along son so you can receive some replies and info to help you out.

You are also more than welcome to give our nurses a call if you would like to, as they can likely offer a bit of advice to help you prepare. If you'd like to do this, you can reach them on freephone 0808 800 4040 (Monday-Friday, 9-5).

I hope it all goes OK next week.

Wishing you all the best,

Ben
Cancer Chat Moderator

I had my enlarged complex overies removed in October , they tried keyhole but so many adhesions that they had to open my abdomen to find the overy The excision of of the adhesions took 4 1/2 hours  which was a bit of a shock. They told me pre op that l may need open surgery   But this cancelled the rest of the list, my surgeon was the oncology one who said other surgeons would have bailed and not removed all of the adhesions. The lower scar is about 7/8 inches long I stayed in hospital for 5 days  it's taking a while to get really back to normal and carrying heavy things like  the shopping . I have just gone back to school visiting with my therapy poodle as l couldn't walk him. I was told not to drive until I felt comfortable you need to be able to twist and turn comfortably. I have not needed to returned to work as l am retired l was really pleased that the biopsies were benign lm really pleased that l have had this done.

Thank you that's good to know about driving after, I guess I'll just need to wait and see really but it's hard to plan/think ahead when you've got no idea!

I'm so pleased everything worked out well for you. Take care x