Okay, don't freak out
Mar. 16th, 2011 01:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elderwittySo, 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.
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.
Re: vibes and icons
Date: 2011-03-23 06:02 am (UTC)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
Date: 2011-03-25 08:19 pm (UTC)Who are you again? :>
Re: vibes and icons
Date: 2011-03-29 07:31 am (UTC):>
Re: vibes and icons
Date: 2011-04-01 06:12 am (UTC)Exit, Stage Left