Okay, don't freak out

[elderwitty]

So, I'm going to have a hysterectomy.

I wasn't using my uterus for its specified purpose (and underlined that with an endometrial ablation seven or so years ago), so it apparently decided to grow a baseball. Yes, I have a baseball sized mass. Benign? Malignant? Won't know 'til it comes out. It's so big that the doctor said, "How did you not feel that?" My actual response, "I thought I was just getting fatter," wasn't quite what I was feeling, which was, "I don't actually palpate myself that often." And I almost never lie on my stomach, which would have been a dead giveaway.

Here's the best bit. She says it's been growing for about a year, and that it should have been palpable to my gyno last August/September, the most recent visit as noted on my history sheet. Only not so much, because when I called their office today to find out when my appointment is scheduled for this year, as I have misplaced my reminder card (which sits on the popcorn canister on the kitchen counter), they informed me that I don't have one. More than that, I was a No-show for the one in September 2010. It seems that I lost the card longer ago than I thought. This is what having no sense of long-term time does for a person. Grrr!

Of course, that was the first time I've ever missed a doctor's appointment, of any type, in my life. And that is the only doctor's office that doesn't have either a human or robot call or email to remind you of your approaching appointment. And what's with not calling me to upbraid me for missing it? I'm not blaming them - it's all on my lack of time sense and shoddy card retention skills - but isn't it funny that the one appointment I miss is the one that's going to have the most serious consequences. This is how life has worked my whole life - with the tiniest things getting together to tackle. Any one thing doesn't happen = the whole unhappy occurence is avoided.

If you've got any benignity vibes hanging around, please send them along. And if they know any laprascopic vibes, please tell them to come, too.

Comments

[squidgiepdx]

Oh sweetie... ::hugs:: You know I'm thinking good thoughts for you! You have the other half of my brain, so you know it's true! :)

Have Danny in a sweater, for at least a little comfort...

good thoughts

[elderwitty]

Thanks, bb. I can feel them vibrating around from over in this hemisphere. :D

I'll bet rubbing up against that softy/fuzzly sweater is really healing.


New Kono icon - whatchu think?


ETCrown a winner in the which icon race?

Re: good thoughts

[squidgiepdx]

I like that Kono! Such emotion, just with the eyes...

Re: good thoughts

[elderwitty]

\o/ That's just what I was going for!!!

I like yours, too. Is this new? I don't remember seeing any from H50 'til now.

Re: good thoughts

[squidgiepdx]

It's my Google-fu. I just googled "Hawaii Five-0" and clicked on images, then stole it from there. :)

Re: good thoughts

[elderwitty]

Maybe I should do that, to get one of Scott/Danny where he's not quite so dyspeptic. And that one of Chin that didn't work from the Italian-subtitled one.

Back from dentist, all clean and shiny.

[kshandra]

...well, shit.

Fingers crossed, etc.

fingers crossed

[elderwitty]

Thanks, doll. :D

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

Hurray for getting it out! ♥ Sometimes, I swear to god, the uterus is more trouble than it's worth. A close friend just had hers removed laproscopically last week, and she also had a mass (melon-sized) in there, and it had tipped back and was crushing her intestine. Good times. She is fantastically happy to have it gone, after all the pain it's been causing her, and we've been talking (among our local circle of friends) that it's high time we had some sort of ritual marking of happily surrendering our uterii, because sometimes that's a great, great gift.

You'll be in my thoughts, sweets! ♥

uterii

[elderwitty]

Amen, sister! I think the whole process is crazy, evolutionarily speaking. Why have half your tribe fertile year-round? Some of them are bound to pop out mouths to feed in lean and hungry winter. On a more personal note: As one who never wanted kids, why should I have to change the oil if I'm never gonna drive the car? :grin:

She had a melon-sized removed laproscopically? Wow, that gives me good thoughts. I couldn't figure out how they would get a baseball through a straw(ish). I know it's not solid, but still. Thanks for the info on that front, especially.

it's high time we had some sort of ritual marking of happily surrendering our uterii

I'm planning on a six-week festival of porn reading and beta duty, along with finally getting all my photos labelled, and installing songs on my MP4 and pix on my 2009 birthday gift digital photo frame (technology is hard, yo [and online porn is distracting]). Would it be uterii? Uteruses? Uteropodes?

Thanks, hon. I appreciate it greatly.

(See Steve avert his face from talk of feelings and womenparts. :p )

[skaredykat.livejournal.com]

Thinking of you/fingers crossed and sending benign thoughts and good lap vibes your way.

vibes

[elderwitty]

Thanks, hon. I really do appreciate it. With the power of our collected wills behind it, it must sway to our way. :D

[unhobbityhobbit.livejournal.com]

D:!

I shall duly take my 'not cancer!' joy of last August and pass it on to you.

joy!

[elderwitty]

I will take that joy, use it responsibly, and pass it along to the next one to need it. Thanks, babe!

[elayna88.livejournal.com]

My second-ex-sister-in-law had a mass like that removed. I had thought she must be exaggerating except the surgeon had taken a picture of it. But it all went smoothly and she felt much better afterwards. I hope your operation goes equally well and you have a fast recovery. *hugs*

smooth and fast

[elderwitty]

Thanks greatly for the well wishes, babycat. :D

I was having a bit of trouble believing it was quite that big - it felt golf ball sized to me - until I saw the CAT scan results. They sent a copy home, to view and also pass on to the surgeon. Comparing the size of the blob to the width of my pelvic bones makes it a baseball, alright. No stitching, though. That will arrive separately, I guess. :chuckle: Oh, the bad jokes I will be making throughout this process. (I told Walter that I had consired titling this post Ah-nuld was wrong.)

[grammarwoman]

Oh my! You most certainly are getting benign wishes from me.

I had a double-duty surgery before my son was conceived, to remove a vaginal septum and laprascopically clear up some scar tissue in my ladyparts. Of the two, the laprascopic trail (inserted in my belly button) hurt more.

May you have the very best of drugs and results in your recovery.

benign wishes

[elderwitty]

Thanks, doll!

Holy cow. Isn't it sort of a long way from the belly button to the ladyparts? I say poke a new hole closer -- scars are cool. Not the scar tissue they cleared up, obvs, just external ones. I have a set of three on my right upper arm that form a smiley face. I mean, c'mon. :D

Thanks again. (Ooh, the good drugs. I hadn't thought about that.)

vibes and icons

[elderwitty]

Thanks for the vibes - I'll take all I can get. It turns out there's a history of fibroids in the family (that I was unaware of. As mid-westerners, we don't discuss such things), so the odds are even better that it will be. yay! I'll update on Saturday or so. From what they tell me it'll take that long for me to feel like doing stuff. (Oh, did I mention that the surgery is on for this Thursday? There was a cancellation and I snapped it up.)

As for the time sense, I'm with ya. It's not helping that LJ is having some lag in sending notifications. I'm getting notified of comments I answered last week. The issue is system-wide, it seems, and all we can do is wait it out. (I have no memory of which icon I was asking about, either. Seems long-term time is not the only area where service is poor. :D )

Thanks again!

Re: vibes and icons

[elderwitty]

I figured, "Why wait?" Also, the peeps at work have been more annoying than usual, so it's good to get a break from that, too. :grin: Thanks for the vibes! I'll pass them along to the next one who needs them when I'm done with 'em.

Yes, I've been warned against: laughing, sneezing, coughing, and backing into the water stream to rinse my hair. These are all valuable tips!

I think it was the one with grammar stuff, after popping over to her journal and seeing her front page. (And I did snag it. Thanks again!)

Re: vibes and icons

[elderwitty]

OMG, the best part of a vacation is being away from the annoying co-workers. ARGH!!! Congrats on your own upcoming freedom. :D

I think it's because to get your hair under the stream, you have to do a sort of backbend. Which, ow. Knowing me, I'll probably try the usual way before I walk face first through the water. I'm ornery, is what.

Yes! With two of us we can remember! :snerk:

Re: vibes and icons

[elderwitty]

Ummm... what were we supposed to remember?

Who are you again? :>

Re: vibes and icons

[elderwitty]

Did you leave the iron on what? You have to be specific. Unless it's levitating, it's on something.

:>

Re: vibes and icons

[elderwitty]

You make a good point. If it's got enough juice to manifest to that degree and it doesn't want to share ... odds are high that nothing good will come of ignoring its sage advice.

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