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Veins

I had this big bulging vein that ran down the side of my leg and got bigger and more noticeable after each child was born. It give me some occasional pain, but not awful. My sister-in-law had her varicose veins injected with some solution to help hers go away. I made an appointment with a vein specialist and I thought I would just have it checked out and have it injected. Not so lucky, today I had vein surgery. Mark drove me to Ames to the vein clinic where they removed my vein. It was a 3 hour procedure and I was awake for the whole thing. It was awful. Shots up and down my leg to numb everything. I became light headed at one point, so I ended up being on an incline with my head down. At one point, I could feel the laser and it was a horrific feeling. It was like someone was taking a fire torch and burning the inside of me leg. The procedure took a laser to collapse the vein, then the doctor made 12 tiny incisions up my leg where every inch he pulled out a section of my vein and removed it. Ugh! After some bandaging, I was up and walked out the door and headed home. I was to keep it elevated, but walk on it as frequent as I could. It was not unbearable, but I sure don’t want to do it again!!

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