Tubal Reversal Blog July 25th, 2008

To the patients of the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center message board, sorry. It has been a long time since I last posted a blog. I have worked six to seven days a week for the last eight years and sometimes 36-hour shifts in the hospital. Needless to say, many sleepless nights and long hours. Recently, I completed a six-month training period with Dr. Gary Berger while at the same time, working in the hospital and delivering babies. Before starting my new career at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, I took some time off to be with my family and now I am back!

It has been a long process to become a tubal ligation reversal specialist, but well worth it.

My path to become a specialist in tubal ligation reversal actually started 18 months ago when I first made contact with Dr. Berger. Six months of meetings, followed by six months of tubal ligation reversal training has gone by quite fast. This week has gone by even faster. Monday, July 21 was my first ‘official’ day with Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center. As I write this blog, this is my fourth day of surgery and we have completed 16 tubal ligation reversals thus far. So far, we have had nothing but success. All patients this week have had at least one tube opened or successfully reversed. I hope they will all become pregnant.

My first day untying tubes was wonderful, and all of the surgeries went well. Each day has been both a challenge and a joy. Dr. Berger and I are doing four reversal surgeries a day. I help him with his two patients and he helps me with my two patients. We have been working very well together and the staff at the center have been great and very accommodating.

The best thing about my new career has been the patients. The patients have been wonderful people to work with. I have the opportunity to meet patients from all over the United States and from all walks of life. They each have a unique story to tell. They have been wonderful individuals and couples who desire either more children or improvement in their menstrual symptoms. In the first three days of my new job I received more ‘Thank you Doctor….’ than I did in eight years as a general Ob/Gyn.

I think this will be the beginning of a long and lovely career…..