 Local anesthesia injected at the incision site fro reduced postoperative pain has been studied in other abdominal surgeries. The research has demonstrated the effectiveness of this technique for reduced postoperative pain. One journal article describes a technique similar to the proposed research project1. However, this article did not show any significant difference in the postoperative pain following bupivacaine or normal saline injection of the skin. The authors conclusion for this lack of significance was due to their facilitys high quality analgesia via supplemental subarachnoid morphine. 