Laparoscopy

On the 4th. November I had the laparoscopy at QA. One thing that I was getting used to was all the form filling and there is plenty of it from all the different medical staff responsibilities. So for the pre-op, plenty of health questions, weight, height and BP,  and a re-run of the ECG as the office staff had lost the previous one. I walked to the theatre when they were ready and I guess I was out for about 2 hours when I woke up in recovery. looked after by an excellent nurse, he gave me a s much pain killer as I needed but I had a very sore throat, could hardly talk, a result of the breathing tube they had shoved down my throat plus an endoscopy additional to the keyhole work. They did  attempt an ultrasound scan with a special endoscope but the gap in the esophagus was not wide enough since the cancer had closed it up too much. Subsequently I was wheeled to the discharge area. I had been given some saline solution in theatre which made me feel as if I wanted to urinate constantly bu according to the nurses was not unusual. I had to wait a while to be discharged and eventually a theatre clinician came to talk to me. She said they had found some peritoneal lesions and taken biopsies. I was not exactly with it after the operation and there was no-one with me so I just accepted it at the time but it did worry me somewhat afterwards as to what they had found.