Facing the Battles

                         I'm starting to feel like the game Operation. I don't know why every year I end up with some kind of surgery. I just went into surgery for the same surgery for my 3rd time. The only difference this time it was done open. I also had a two part surgery. When I went to take another scan, I found out I had another hernia out and my Nissen Fundoplation wrap slipped again into my chest. I went to two surgeons, my gastric surgeon and got referred to a thoracic surgeon also. I really didn't under to much how the surgery was going to be. I knew the thoracic surgeon was going to do my surgery open through the chest. Which I was freaking out about the after scar.I knew my gastric surgeon was going to do his part laparascopic taking out scar tissue.                           A week before I had to go for pretesting. At pretesting they mainly asked a bunch of questions and drew blood. They did go over my medicine list. They also only had one of my surgeons