• Everyday Life

    Hysterectomy Recovery

    SURGERY IS COMPLETE!  My uterus, cervix, and tubes are GONE!  Hallelujah! Day of surgery: I was doing pretty good in the pre-op room with my husband and momma.  They did a great job of keeping me distracted from getting nervous and focusing on just how thirsty I was.  When it was time to be wheeled back into ther operating room I was getting anxious.  I got on the table and I remember I started to tear up from my nerves and they gave me some medicine and then I was just out.  It is always so crazy how quick that anesthesia kicks in! Waking up in the recovery room, I…

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    Take My Uterus…PLEASE!

    This post is going to be a little different than any other post I have done so far.  This post is going to be very personal.   Okay….here we go…. I have sufferred for YEARS with painful, brutal periods.  Im talking doubled over cramping, and super heavy bleeding.  Not just normal bleeding, but big clotted bleeding.  “Don’t leave the house if you dont have to” horrible! We have struggled with fertility, {Its by God’s grace that we have our Bug} we have struggled with pain, and I have lost many articles of clothing to my horrible periods.  Planning life around this time each month is a pain too, its not ever…