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Hysterectomy: The Choices That Changed My Life

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After years of being married and no kid’s insight, I decided to make a doctor’s appointment. After my examination, the nurse told me to get dress and wait for the doctor. He finally came in to see me, He informed me that I had fibroid tumors gave me two choices, the first choice was to live with pain the rest of my life. The second choice was to get a total hysterectomy, “you don’t have to choose right now. You can make an appointment for next Wednesday and we will go from there. All I could do was cry on my way home. I cried so hard I couldn’t drive any further so I pulled over to get myself together. The following Wednesday came and I found myself once again sitting in the hot sit at my gynecologists’ …show more content…

I was always reading something terrible that had been done to a poor child. People who don’t even want kids were popping them out like rabbits. Years went by and I came to grips with my life, I would never have any kids of my own. One day while I was at work, I was online and met a nice guy, so I thought. We dated for 8 months before we moved together. I was working two jobs, life was great. Then things began to go south after 6 months of us being together. I couldn’t stand his guts! So one day he said to me ‘you’re a** is pregnant’! Being the smart mouth I am, I said ‘now you have lost your mind, because no babies are coming out of this body’. Just to be on the safe side I went and bought a pregnancy test. It only gave me a spot of pink, so I bought another one and it only gave me a ½ pink line. I finally gave in and the next morning we went to the …show more content…

I gave a sample, she took me vitals and we talked about each other’s families while she ran her test. We both laughed and laughed then she said to me, ‘let me be the first to congratulate you, your baby is due December 5th ‘. I began to hyperventilate. I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. I was in shock for about 20 minutes. She made me sit with her until I calmed down, my boyfriend was waiting for me in the waiting room. We were happy about our soon to be bundle of joy. At the end of my third month I began to have some complications and was placed on bed rest for a month. After a while I began to feel better and was allowed to go back to

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