So I finally got the courage and went in to see my surgeon (what a kind and gentle man!).
All good, all well, all happy.
I didn't dare go to see him with all of the aches, pains, pulling, cramping etc that I was living with post op. It was apparently all normal for the most part.
The stabbing pain that I was feeling with my full pouch pulling on the sutures was apparently due to the fact that he sutured the pouch to the 'peritoine' (don't know the name in English) and the Muscle. He also moved it twice because he tried to intubate me in O.R. and found that the angle was all wrong and couldn't get the tube in. Thus all of the pain.
Ditto for the pain where he released a loop of bowel from emprisioning adhesions...it was apparently (and this part I do not understand at all) erroding 'into the muscle' and thus he had to dig into the muscle to get it all out...says that he had never seen anything like that before.
His comment was that he was shocked that I wasn't in more pain pre-op considering what he found.
As for the pain around the old galbladder site (right side)...he felt around and prounounced that it was the floating ribs that took a hit when he inflated my abdomen.
So other than the button hole where he shoved the cannula on my lower left side that is still inflamed and sore he finds it all well and good.
I have a script for a contrast study in 2 months to make sure that it is all settled into place and happily functional.
I am still somewhat swollen inside and will take a bit longer for things to be completely healed. My pouch, other than when it is very full, is functionning fine and dandy and loves a light, carb-free, low residue diet. I think that I will cooperate and be nice to it.
Sharon