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Update to “Surgery is bad, but no surgery is also bad”
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Hello!!!! I’m BACK and terribly, terribly sore! I actually tried to post an update a few days ago but for some reason it isn’t showing up. Oh well!

Turns out, the day after I posted I was able to get an appointment with a surgeon who my mom was recommended the very next day. I went in very cautious about this woman but as soon as I spoke to her, I was immediately way more comfortable with seeing her even after she was a recommendation to my mother. I spoke to her about my personal health and all that and she was super attentive and respectful. I didn’t have my mom on the phone the entire time, JUST when surgery was being discussed (that’s the only part of the conversation she actually said she wanted to be a part of soooo...) and after asking the surgeon to not bring up certain details to my mother, the surgeon double checked with me to see if I was comfortable with my mom listening to our conversation about surgery and didn’t bring up a single thing I asked her to keep private. She actually didn’t bring up anything other than how the surgery could help my periods which I was VERY happy to hear.

I unfortunately didn’t bring up sterilization or anything related to birth control. It honestly slipped my mind while I was meeting with her! Anyways, during our conversation about surgery, the surgeon actually kept pushing for it since the chances of torsion and complications related to it increased the longer I left the cyst alone. My mom listened to all of this and I could tell she still didn’t want surgery but knew that the risks outweighed the benefits in this situation (I could care less about my own fertility but torsion and al the risks that come with it are things I would like to avoid lol). We asked when the earliest date for surgery would be available and lo and behold, the following Monday was open! After that, it would be weeks before I could have surgery. So I got an appointment set for Monday (aka this past Monday) and after Sunday at midnight, I stopped eating and drinking.

Now, I’m currently stuck waddling around the house or laying in my nest of blankets on the couch with three incisions glued together on my stomach! The cyst itself was about twice the size of my uterus and the best part is that the surgeon said she could show me pictures at my follow up and I’m desperately hoping the pictures were taken when it was still attached. My organs just sit around doing their own thing in my body WITHOUT ANY supervision. Clearly they need some if I ended up growing a huge cyst in my body, so these pictures are as close to keeping an eye on things as I’m going to get!

Oh, and the cyst was sent off to pathology since there were a few growths going on in there. Everything came back normal! No cancer or stray hormones leaking into my body!

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