Coping With Fistulotomy

Back in Dec. I felt a little knot between vaginal opening and anal opening. Figured if I left it alone it would heal. Feb. we were out of town for weekend and I had a lot of anal discomfort kept getting in hot tub thinking may help. thought it was hemmorhoids and it would be ok. A week later I am working 12hour shifts and I am chilling my bottom hurts can’t sit. That day go to gastro and he says hemmorhoids. Ok just make it better!Then day or 2 later no better starts swelling, cant sit down, constipated. Go back to gastro and he realized abscess. Had surgery spent night at hospital due to bad infection. Had to have IV antibiotics. The tubes were worse part… Very uncomfortable.. They were removed a week after surgery. And sitz bathes were my friend they felt wonderful and eased pain. I was down 2 weeks then back to work . Felt better but something not right. It had been 2 mos.since initial surgery There was pressure on vaginal wall on the side surgery was on. Also noticed small amount of discharge, barely red tinge to it, and a small clear blister. The MD was thinking I was ok and came back in 3 mos. till I mentioned those things and he told me those are symptoms of reoccurence. So last week did surgery it had tunneled between rectum and vagina . So we actually took care of it before it caused a big problem again. so… hopefully we are through with that and on the way to a quick recovery. The opening is alot bigger this time but NO tubes! I go back to work in 2 weeks!