Home, minus uterus

[azurelunatic]

Got the uterus (and tubes, and ovaries) out yesterday. Spent the night at the hospital.

Got home today just after noonish, and shortly thereafter fell over for a much-needed nap.

Pain is mostly being covered, and I've been sitting up and walking around. Tomorrow I may venture further afield. No driving for a bit yet, though.

I'm very happy to be rid of my uterus. Of particular note: #bloodcannon is not happening anymore!

I may post a more detailed version in a while.

Comments

[miss_s_b]

Congrats!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you.

[wordweaverlynn]

I'm glad to hear you're doing well.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! I am very relieved that I appear to be handling the surgery pretty well.

[kateshort]

Hooray for a successful surgery! Here's hoping for a recovery as fast as possible with minimal pain.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! So far the pain has not been super bad, though I imagine there will be a few challenges coming up.

[inoru_no_hoshi]

Hooray home! And double hooray no more #bloodcannon! :DD

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! And double thank you! #bloodcannon is the worrrrrrrrrrrst, omg.

[alexseanchai]

Glad it went well!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! So am I.

[silveradept]

Hooray for no more cannonades. And for you, having pain managed and getting up and walking and taking care of yourself. Hopefully there will be lots of people visiting to help keep you moving and not bored.

[azurelunatic]

I think you may perhaps overestimate the people who visit me, vs. the people I go to visit and meet! I do have a fairly robust local social life, but I appear to be the weak link in it. [Silver, meet introvert. Introvert, meet Silver. It turns out that when we met face-to-face at OSB, you managed to become one of the excessively small list of people who get to bypass my introvert filters entirely. Other members of this list include many but not all of a certain group of email addresses, many of whom are Not Particularly Local.]

Pain is doing okay this morning.

Lack of cannonades is always an excellent outcome.

[cadenzamuse]

I'm glad to hear it went well.

[azurelunatic]

Yes, thank you!!!

[trobadora]

Congrats on being rid of it!

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! I'm so happy.

[nanila]

Splendid. Congratulations. I'm glad you're recovering. *very gentle hugs*

[azurelunatic]

*grins delightedly at you*

IT'S GONE OMG

[umadoshi]

Hooray! *^^*

[azurelunatic]

:D :D :D

[twistedchick]

Very very glad you are doing well.

One hint for later: since you did get the ovaries removed, you may want to check on which hormones they were supplying to keep your bones strong, and whether you should find supplements for them. (I am phrasing it that way because I don't know your age -- my mother's ovaries were removed during her hysterectomy when she was 40, and she had problems with bone fragility later in life that were not fun and I would not want you to have those.)

But for now, please relax, heal and be well.

[azurelunatic]

It's on my doctor's radar! I'm on the young side for this; we'll be seeing whether I need HRT or not. I might not, but we'll take a look at my bloodwork.

[mathemagicalschema]

> UTERUS uses #bloodcannon!
> It's effective!
> SURGEON uses ROBOT!
> It's super effective!
> UTERUS has fainted!

[azurelunatic]

*snerk*

[enemyofperfect]

Yay pain management, and yay successful eviction of the troublesome uterus!

[azurelunatic]

I'm just hoping to keep on top of both of these, though I imagine my uterus will not actually come sneaking back inside if I don't set a guard at the gates.

[wohali]

happy dance :D

[azurelunatic]

*dances in spirit, if not in actual life*

[jesse_the_k]

A 21-gun salute to the bloodcannon's decommissioning!

Also, welcome to menopause. It's weird here. Feel free to join us at
http://menopause.dreamwidth.org

[pauamma]

21-gun? Was the bloodcannon a head of state?

[azurelunatic]

That's specifically labeled as a space for women. No thanks.

That sort of specific labeling is a red flag for anyone of a non-binary gender, and often correlates with a space where non-binary folks are subjected to various forms of discrimination, othering, and outright hostility. It's a sign that the folks running the forum have not thought about inclusiveness to non-binary folks who otherwise meet the physical requirements, and that lack of inclusiveness is pretty much guaranteed to result in well-meant stuff that nonetheless pushes various unhappiness buttons, sometimes all of them at once.

[jesse_the_k]

Shit.

Thoughtless of me.

Thank you for the education! I will check for this bias in future.

[alatefeline]

YAY! Glad you are recovering okay so far and got to go home.

[azurelunatic]

A little sore, a little sleepy, but nothing super terrible!

[alatefeline]

Yay! Good trend, please continue if possible.

[xinef]

Glad it went well and you are home. Hope the recovery is fast and without complications.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you! I seem to be doing quite well so far.

[aedifica]

Yay! I've been absent lately so I missed any lead-up, but I know it's been troublesome for you and I'm glad you won't have to deal with that particular trouble again.

[azurelunatic]

http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/7602082.html and http://azurelunatic.dreamwidth.org/7602348.html are the important bits!

[afuna]

Glad you are home!

[azurelunatic]

It is very nice to be here, with my own bed and my own keyboard.

[frameacloud]

Get well soon! We're all rooting for you.

[azurelunatic]

Thank you!