Being Buttinski

Hey, It's Monday, the start of a new week and day 5 of my recovery from my laparoscopy.  I'm feeling sore today. Gas pains have definitely gone down and now I'm starting to feel more pain from the incisions and all the work I've had done inside. I'm definitely less exhausted than I was, but I'm starting to get headaches and backache and just generally feeling a bit uncomfortable.  The only trouble with starting to feel a bit better, is that I feel more human again. That doesn't sound like a bad thing, but it means I feel like I can do what I did before, and I definitely can't yet. Even silly things like making myself some lunch, I feel like I can do that now. But then I definitely suffer for it later in aches and pains and tiredness.  I need to realise how much my body has been through in the past 2 weeks, and let it heal. I had a week of pretty taxing anxiety, then an operation. While it was a hell of a lot simpler and smaller than my pre...

Hey everyone, I'm currently 5 days post-op after my laparoscopy on Wednesday. To cut a long story short... I have Endometriosis. I've been having pretty bad pains since my last surgery 4 years ago (which was a much bigger surgery but relating to the same area). I saw my doctor who was lovely and really listened to what I was saying. That's not easy to do in a 10 minute consultation. She said it sounded either like I had adhesions from my last operation or that I might have something called Endometriosis or Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Now I'd heard of Endo(metriosis) as my friend has it but I'd never heard of Pelvic Inflammatory Disease. Either way, after months and months of every test going (blood tests, swabs, urine tests, STI tests, the whole shabang), the only thing left to try was diagnostic keyhole surgery. I finally got my call telling me a date for my operation... EXACTLY ONE WEEK BEFORE SURGERY! I knew I was going to have another operation and wh...