I thought long and hard about opening up and writing this post. It took me a while to put the words together, and figure out exactly what I wanted to say and how I wanted to say it.
Before anyone asks why I didn't tell you or come to you etc., this isn't about you. It’s about me and what I felt and who I felt I could really talk to and be vulnerable with, and who would be able to empathise or who could relate to what I'm currently going through. That being said… let’s begin.
Dear Husband (DH) and I met in a Halloween party in 2005Christmas. There was a gap in years between the two of us but despite that by Christmas that year we started dating. By May 2006 we were living together and by Halloween 2007 we got married. We’ve have so much fun together and we’ve grown up so much together during all these years that I can honestly say we are better together that we are apart. We have a lot in common and we also complement each other and we are best friends. What more could I ask for?
We have a great life together… we've had wins and setbacks and fun and we've been stressed and sometimes even despair… but being together and being best friends have helped a lot.
In 2011 we thought we wanted to start a family, to procreate... it was about time we have a mini-me or mini-him in the house ... we thought it would be easy-peasy but life proved us wrong.
In 2011 we thought we wanted to start a family, to procreate... it was about time we have a mini-me or mini-him in the house ... we thought it would be easy-peasy but life proved us wrong.
April that year I was diagnose with a myoma and it was growing alarmingly fast so surgery was required. I went to my doctor and she said that even though the myoma was growing fast I should try to get pregnant because if I went through surgery I might lose my uterus, which literally freaked me out. I’m not one to settle for just one opinion so I seek out another doctor which said to me that pregnancy was practically impossible if I have the myoma growing (and that my struggle to lose weight was also due to the myoma) but he also said that due to the location of the myoma I might lose my uterus. Not what I wanted to hear… now I had one doctor saying I need to get pregnant right away and another one saying that pregnancy was almost impossible.
So I tried a third doctor… and the third time was the charm. I called the Hospital Quirón for a quick appointment with a Gyno-surgeon and they said I was lucky as they just signed up a doctor and he had a day available that same week. This doctor turned out to be one of the most famous Gyno-surgeons in Andalucía… I couldn’t believe my eyes, really.
Went to the appointment with my DH (dear husband) and Dr. Perez-Bryan Hafner received us. He check all the paperwork I brought with me listened to the story and said he needed to see for himself… so up we went for an ultrasound… and he said that the two previous doctors were “alarmists” but this type of cases were his day to day so no problem at all. He said that in his hands the chance of complications that would result in losing the uterus were minimal if not almost non-existent and he scheduled us for surgery in 10 days!
Just a few months before my dear father-in-law Alan was diagnose with stage 4 lung cancer. In May Alan passed away, which was a very difficult moment in our lives. He was the most caring and wonderful person you can imagine and a little bit of light died the day he left us. We miss him a lot…
We had my surgery schedule by May 13th, but we held the funeral that day so had to postpone the surgery. A week after the funeral we had the surgery and everything went just fine as Dr. Perez Bryan said it would go and he managed to remove the myoma without even touching the inside of the uterus which was a great advantage… we were so relieved!
Recovery was pretty quick, I was out of the hospital in 3 days and after 10 days I was almost completely recovered. The only thing I had from the surgery is a C-section like scar.
In the next appointment Dr. Perez Bryan said we could try for babies in 6 months and that because he didn't touch the inside of the uterus we could have a normal delivery. Then he transferred me to another doctor for the follow up.
6 month later (December 2011) and after all test came back OK doctor said we could start trying for a baby.
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