Chapter 28: Post IUD Surgery

Hello all!

Welcome back to the next instalment of this dramatic soap opera that is my real life.

You know, looking back on the past 20 or so posts of this blog, I cannot help but take a step back and think  Je*us H. Chr*st, I have been through a lot. In fact more than most people have been through in a life time. Which is good, better me than them.......I guess. 🤷 Makes me wonder though, how would other people handle something of this caliber? or how would just a "normal" person in general deal with a "feat" like this? Seeing as we all know up to this point that for sure i'm as normal as a dog riding a skateboard. 🛹🐕Oh yeah of corse its fun to watch at first, and h3ll your even a little fascinated by its talents to learn and adapt. But deep down you can't help but be just a tad worried that it may fall and really hurt itself. Of corse no-one wants to see a broken animal, especially if its cool enough to learn to use a skateboard. Maaaaan.... i'm 36, about to be 37 this month😳🙈, and I still don't know how to hula hoop let alone ride a freakin skateboard. Thats it, Im making an executive decision! from this day forward, I say that any animal that can ride anything with or without wheels, including surfboards! should not only get free food for life, but also a key to whatever city they live in. Point. Blank. Period.   Yes, I know i'm a little "extraordinary", a nice way to put it I guess. But whatever man, Im sure it's one of the many things many of you find endearing about me, and if not? Well, go take a long skateboard ride off of a short pier. But don't take any animals with you, They shouldn't have to suffer for your rudeness.😒 Oh, and don't forget suck it.....😏

So as you may have already read, i'm assuming of corse. The last post included the first surgery in this crazy cancer saga of mine. The insertion of the IUD, polyp removal, and D&C procedure, shout out to Dr. J and Dr. McHottie. 😏 What was the next step? well, healing of corse. Luckily it didn't take too long to get back to what seemed to be my "new" normal. Despite speaking to the doctors and surgeons etc, I was not really prepared to handle what was going to happen next. Why you ask? well primarily because Ive never used an IUD before to be honest. To be fully transparent, ive used birth control in my, what seems to be far far distant past. Why did I stop?, Not for any other reason then I kept forgetting to take it.🤦 However, much to my surprise, turns out I never really needed to use it, but i'll save those details for another post.

I was told that I may get some spotting or a little bleeding for a while. However if its really a lot then I should contact my doctor immediately. Ok, makes sense, seeing as I just had surgery so my body would have to take time to get used to this (for lack  of a better work) foreign/alien-like object that has now taken up primary real estate in my uterus for at least the next few months. Without helping to pay rent I might add, would have been nice to have  a little extra money coming in....but I guess ill just have to keep paying my bills with my own money for now. 😕 What a freakin moocher, making me pay for everything, rude.

All that aside, 😆 it seemed as though the IUD was doing its job which was great. Not necessarily by what the doctors observed, but mainly from how much I saw I was bleeding. Mind you, it wasn't necessarily to the level of what my periods were like pre-cancer diagnosis. But it certainly was not to the level I feel would have been envisioned by the doctors of what actually was supposed to be coming out of me. By now I should have known better and invested into some stocks for Poise, Always, Kotex, or even the no name Costco brand overnight maxi pads. With the amount of money ive invested into these brands, I could at least have gotten some of my money back. But hind sight is 20/20 I guess.🙄

Nevertheless, I knew there was to be some bleeding. That naturally was to be expected. However there was still quite a bit coming out, along with some excessively large clots. It would be at this point where I would make a hilarious comparison to some sort of food or whatever. Mind you, I might not this time seeing as some of you may be eating whatever item I mention in the somewhat near future.  So I'll do you all a solid and keep this one to myself. But those of you who know what im taking about, you know what I mean.

Day after day, as time went on it seemed that it wasn't getting better. In fact depending on the day, it was close to what my "normal" periods were like. Well maybe not THAT bad, but was certainly up there. For 3 months, I bled almost every day. Literally. For the days that I didn't beed, it seemed like my uterus was taking stock of whatever daily quota it needed to push out, and then hit the release button to explode whenever it felt as though the time was right. Wether I had the correct maxi pad on or not.🙈🤦 A-hole.

What I found most interesting, like I said before, I have never used an IUD in the past. Is although an IUD is inserted into a woman's uterus, it doesn't necessarily stop your body from ovulating and getting "PMS-like" symptoms. 😮😱 At least in my case, i'm not sure how others are, seeing as again another topic women don't necessarily talk about. At least to me in my circle anyway. 🤷 So luckily for my husband, I wasn't being a heartless b*tch ALL of the time, like before when I was on the Megace medication. Seemed I was having heartless b*tch fits only SOME of the time, aka during my "monthly cycles".😉😆

Overtime, the bleeding seemed to not be so consistent but more or less fluctuating whenever it felt fit to do so. However, I was certainly concerned seeing as it seemed as though the river of daemon lava flowing out of my vagina was never going to end. I eventually decided to follow up with my doctor and see if there was anything I should or could be doing. Looking back, I should have gone straight to the source for the answer. Its kind of like a "catch 22" in scenarios like this. It's such a blessing to have such a great team working with me, as they really are amazing. However, for certain things, it seems as though no one doctor wanted to make an "official decision" of what needs to be done in fear of what another doctor may say. Or maybe it was my fault? maybe I was going to the wrong people first to ask the questions I was needing answers to. Mind you, to be honest, I was just going to whichever doctor I was actually able to get ahold of, or who was able to call me back in a reasonable time frame. i.e. not 2 weeks later😒 Not their fault, I totally get it, too many cases and not enough doctors.

When I was able to get hold of the right people, turns out their concern was not necessarily the amount of blood coming out. It was more if I was able to stand the severe cramping and pain that came along with it. It was all up to me at this point. "The fact that your bleeding is good, it means that the IUD is hopefully working and that it is shedding the uterine lining like we want. However, at this point its really up to you, if you are able to tolerate the pain you are feeling. If not, as a last resort, we can go in and take the IUD out and look into some other medications you can take as an alternate. But I encourage you to wait a while longer as it can take about 6 weeks for your body to adjust to the surgery you had."

Well, i've never really been one to just give up. Im extremely stubborn like that. Not to mention, if I simply turned around and just took out the IUD, then what the h3ll was all of this for? I walked around a day surgery unit with my "too small" pants around my knees like the hunchback of Notre dame, a massive needle shoved into my spine, and had my body completely frozen from the waist down for over 6 hours, for what? just to see some hot mixed race doctor with green eyes, equivalent to the colour of a gorgeous jade stone, laugh at my ridiculous jokes, and play me Lauren Hill?!?. Yeah As much as I wanna say it was worth it just to meet him (and it was), nah not a good enough reason for me. Side note, only 2% of the world's population has green eyes. Thanks Dr. Google!

I decided to tough it out, I came this far. Some may even say too far, just to pack up my sh*t💩 and turn back.  As the "inspiration💪" once said "I didn't come this far just to come this far". So let's keep going and see what happens! Yes, for those of you wondering, that was a Jersey Shore reference. I told you I love me some reality TV. 😏😆

See you all next Monday!

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