My Second Painful Gynecological Procedure

“Of course you can, you must be starving after being out there for a couple days.”

“You’ll be fine, I’ll go on it with you, it’s not scary. It’s perfectly safe.” Elizabeth stated, as if it was a fact, as we neared the park.

I woke up early that day to get ready for school, I knew that my day was gonna go super slow because I was too excited that I always kept looking at the clock tick away time. My normal Monday school day went good till my last period of the day which was Algebra II. My head was so overwhelmed that I forgot that I had a test that day, my heart broke when I walked in the room and not remembering about it. I took the test and passed and I was so happy and knew that my day was gonna get better. School ended and I got home and started getting ready for the big show. I had four tickets and they were already assigned for my mother, my aunt, and my godmother and of course one for myself. We scheduled an early dinner before we got to the venue since the doors opened at six p.m. and the opening act, the Swon Brothers, opened at seven p.m. After eating our heavy mexican dinner, we arrived at the Toyota Center and the first thing I saw was the lighted billboard showing “Carrie Underwood; Tonight”, my heart dropped because the queen of country was literally a few feet away from me. We got inside the enourmous venue and got to our seats, which by the way were club seats, sat down and waited for the big show. Easton Corbin, who is coming to the country charts, was the performer before her. His setlist was decent; I really wasn’t interested in his vocals or his hit songs. Around 8:45 p.m., the whole venue went black and I knew the time has finally

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It was very intense, very long. Everything was different than I expected. I said, 'That's it! I'm done! I am going to the hospital and I'm going to get an epidural.' They asked me if I really wanted to do that and I said, 'No, I don't, but I do.' I wanted to try natural if at all possible.

“Good. Now I’m sorry for yelling at you but I just need to focus on driving someti—.”

My insurance company doesn’t open until 8 and while I knew for a fact that Tubal Ligations were covered, I was worried that maybe the hospital wasn’t in my plan. I tell Michelle, that I would like to wait until 8 to call my insurance. She understands. At 8 am, I am dialing my insurance company when Michelle calls me up to the desk. She informs me that Dr. Gutierrez says she was already expecting me up there and since I am not she is canceling the surgery and leaving because she is very busy. I stammer that my surgery is scheduled for 9:30. Michelle shrugs. At this moment I experience a full anxiety attack. I tell her I would be back and try to collect myself. As my husband assists me with breathing exercises, I finally compose myself to call my insurance.

My heartrate has to be off the charts. I’m sure the anesthesiologist would know, since I’m hooked up to a monitor. She is doing her damnedest to make this experience seem routine. For her, I’m sure it is. She must do at least a dozen sections a week. I, on the other hand, have never had surgery. Never have I had another life inside me either, counting on me to make all the right decisions. I’m hoping this is the right decision. I am sitting here on this hard cold steel table alone, no loved ones are allowed back until the procedure is underway. My naked back is exposed to a student. There will be a slight pinch as the needle pierces through my lumbar flesh kissing the anesthetic solution into my system. I am here because my daughter, my already

Surgery can be scary to many people, especially when they don’t know the outcome of the experience. Millions of people undertake surgery every year and the fear is always there. Many people have personal and scary experiences with surgery, and I am one of those people. My experience starts on a Tuesday, after a long day of pain at school. I informed my parents of my pain and it went from there.

After this procedure, it is common to have: pain or discomfort; mild cramping; bleeding or spotting; brownish discharge that smells; and a heavier than normal menstrual period (the first period after the procedure).

"I was like, 'Oh God, I'm not going to be a singer anymore.' I was bawling to my husband and completely hammered, just going, 'Oh my God, it's over. I don't know what I'm going to do I guess I could do more charity work.' I didn't know what I was going to do."

As we leave the Doctors office, we are both in total shock from the news we were just informed. Dr. Smith said I will have to have frequent Doctors visits from now on so I don’t drop dead somewhere. My Doctors appointments will be once a week until the big day (surgery day). Dr. Smith said that I will meet with my surgeon next visit and they’ll discuss the game plan for the upcoming

“The point is that I wouldn’t want you to fall or create a mess when out on the streets.”

The second surgery that I had was very involved and included breaking my hip bone, twisting it, and screwing it back into place. This type of surgery is called a periacetabular osteotomy, which is to fix dysplasia of the hip which is what I was diagnosed with during the last surgery. In order to help the pain, the anesthesiologist gave me an epidural after he gave me the same drug as last time that made me completely unaware. Unlike before, the medication started to wear off before they put me completely under. When I started to wake up as they were wheeling me back into the surgery room I started telling the people wheeling me in that I was awake. To my complete and utter shock they didn’t believe me, and the anesthesiologist even told

One of them would just hurt for no apparent reason from time to time, it was becoming unbearable. I originally thought it was because of the fact that I had a vasectomy about 15yrs earlier. I was considering getting a reversal thinking that would help. I went to my regular practitioner and got a referral for a specialist. When I went to see the specialist he had me bend over the table and he put on his rubber gloves and stuck his finger up my rectum. I didn’t like him he wasn’t very nice or professional. When I told him why I was there all he could recommend was removing my testicles. I told him I didn’t think so. He told me there weren’t any signs of prostate problems but there was no way I was going to have my testicles removed without a second opinion. I figured I’d just wait it out. I read up on a few things and one remedy was to put them on ice for a while. One of the other ideas was to have sex it might relieve some of the pressure. The good thing was, I didn’t have a UTI.