Clarification

I realized that I wasn't that clear about Lily's surgery.

The photo from two posts ago shows her surgery site. Those three little steristrips show where her hernia was repaired laparoscopically. That means that the surgeon made pin sized puncture wounds and used something like a very thin metal "arm" that could go on and sew up where the defect was and push and pull everything back to where it belongs. They also inflate the abdominal area with air so that they can work in there. A small camera was inserted through an incision made in her belly button so that Dr. Bruzoni could see what he was doing. If you go back and look at the photo you will see some redness and stitches in Lily's navel. Laparoscopic surgery is less invasive and quite amazing! Also with the camera, Dr. Bruzoni was able to see that Lily also had an umbilical hernia that he was able to repair while he was doing the inguinal ones.

If you look at where the steri strips are, you can see that her hernias were located at her lower abdomen. We got photos that were taken during surgery, and Dr. Bruzoni showed me Lily's ovaries and her uterus. Very incredible to see them. And wow! She's really a girl :-). Just quite cool to see her girl organs as it were.

I apologize if this is super medical and technical. I realized based on a comment left that I wasn't very clear. And being the kind of person who likes to understand what is going on, I thought I would share what has been explained to me.