Well, today’s the big day. In just a few hours, I’ll be on the table for abdominal myomectomy surgery. While I’m really not thrilled about: having a big cut in my up-until-now surgery-free, nature-given body (I don’t even have my ears pierced!) possible scarring and internal adhesions from having my uterus messed with being exposed [...]
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My parents arrived last night for a ~2-week visit. It originally was going to be a 5-day visit, but they moved their arrival date up once this whole myomectomy surgery plan materialized. It’s very nice of them to help me out during my initial post-op days, but I’ve been doubting whether telling my over-anxious mom [...]
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I had the bright idea of trying to tighten my lower abdominal muscles before the surgery. Just because I know I have this big fibroid doesn’t give me the excuse to relax my lower abdominal muscles and let it all hang out, right? So today I was working on pulling those lower abs in. Make [...]
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My fibroid seems to be doing quite well for itself. This morning, during my daily check (can’t help it), it had such a strong pulse that it was actually jumping up slightly with each beat. I checked other standard pulse spots and nowhere else could I feel it as clearly and strongly. I guess I’ve [...]
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The random stabbing pains near the fibroid are back today after a week’s reprieve. It must be a Wednesday thing. Or else all the Advil I’ve been popping over the past 5 days for an (unrelated) extremely painful sore ear/throat is now out of my system.
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Throughout the day, I kept getting random stabbing pains in a certain area of my abdomen, near the mass. It’s the first time I’ve had any pain associated with this. Is it from yesterday’s test with IV contrast? stress? focusing too much on my abdomen for the past 6 days? imagination?
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My eczema and contact dermatitis rash has been driving me nuts the last several weeks. Last night, I woke up to find myself scratching vigorously. And then I noticed a big hard spot on my abdomen. A year ago, I also had noticed a hard spot in my abdomen, but it was smaller, flat, and [...]
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