Hysterectomies - it's gotta be done but over here for hand holding part two

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Over here for the hand holding.
One in five women in the uk will have to have a hysterectomy at some point in their lives.
Come and join us if you are waiting, pre op, bleery eyed on the ward or recovering afterwards.

Aww I miss you guys- work is such an inconvenience to my other essential activities of sitting and mumsnetting (Stamps foot).

santas my HR suggested I have 8 weeks off, as said that if I came back to soon I was risking further ill health which would be frowned upon. crem I too have had 3 incidents of sick leave in the past year- flu, and the 2 episodes of surgery so am also facing a discussion.....

Its so unfair waiting . Bloody annoying .

Santa I am really worried about that diet. Are you really bunged up? Sounds extreme. For the record nuts are tremendous in this regard.
Almost immediate effect for The Slow of Bowel

santa really that much lactulose and dried fruit... Never mind motion you must be a methane powered rocket, stay away from naked flames for gods sake!

Ah progress is not an issue. It's been fine from day 1. It's just paranoia on my behalf because I imagine it would be like ripping my innards apart

I have just had a lovely hot bath to relax while my gullible supportive fall do the washing up. There were some spare treat sized crunchy bars left over from making up a Christmas present (I have filled a lovely biscuit tin with treats for DS2 to give ds1) and I can report that eating crunchy bars in the bath is really very sustaining and energising.

I have brain fog. Anyone else?

I'm not returning to work for 6 weeks. I sat and cried in my interview today. I think that told them all they needed to know

Hello ladies I have been lurking for a while and am so grateful to you all for posting about your roller coaster journeys with hysterectomies.

Am waiting for a laparoscopic partial hysterectomy early next year so am plonking myself down on the waiting sofa next to Jacks.

Hope that you are all resting up and healing well. Any advice for preparation would be much appreciated.

Oh Santa you poor thing.

Welcome Twinkle.!! And merry Christmas . Are you waiting for a date still? Or are you already scheduled in?

Thank you Cremola, no date yet I will need to speak to my consultants secretary.

Santa be kind to yourself and it is so much better not to rush back to work x

I hated being dateless. It's just nice to know and plan isn't it.

I have to go out tomorrow because I have a severe case of cabin fever and may have to watch judge Judy or something equally as shameful

Awwww to Santa. Glad they have been supportive. It will mean a bit of a rest after Christmas which will be good.

I think the stabby pain in the perineum must be the wound from your cervix coming out, likewise the feeling of ligaments not holding it together. I think that would settle down soon.

Welcome to twinkle. I had the same I think. Keyhole is the way to go, no question.

You are all very mean about judge judy. You know how challenging bad behaviour can make people rebel and just behave worse? Well, I am now sorely tempered to switch channels to Jeremy Kyle.

Tempted not tempered :)

Twinkletoes- Preparation- I would make sure that neither home nor work expect you to do anything for six weeks. Do you have small children at home during the day?

Physically I wish I had lost my extra stone before the OP rather than leaving it till afterwards and adding to it as wounds heal better if they are not buried in spare tyres but can't think of anything else.

Good God I really have hit the wall this week, the whole area has started aching again although bruising on stomach looking less awful. Have whacked self clean oven on warp factor 8 and left Windows open downstairs as my contribution to housework. Hope no one calls the fire brigade

twinkletoes totally agree with getting as fit as possible before the op- as this will allow lots of guilt free gorging on chocs etc after I'm good at coping with guilt though...
green how many weeks are you?

I'm currently sat doing 'admin' at work

3 weeks, think I've pulled something near my belly button! Now contemplating how to pick youngest up from school. Think up to this point I have felt so much better than I expected but have plateaued and now feeling achy and a bit flat. Am distracting myself with blue bloods

Yes I made great progress in the first 2/3 weeks then it slowed down big time.

I went to buy oven cleaner yesterday. Reading the instructions this morning, it says do not use on self cleaning ovens. I think mine might be, so i've only done the door. I'm on the 3rd attempt so far I find the chemicals scary thats my excuse for not doing it very often I'm an oven slattern but am hosting christmas lunch so have been embarrassed into it. Got to find the instructions to see if it is self clean. We've had it 2 years so obviously it's never been cleaned before

Even more scary is that I'm not used to doing xmas lunch and my in laws are all foodies. Help! I can cook, but oh the pressure...

Just wiped the 3rd lot of stuff off and its still not completely clean in one corner. Oh well I'm not doing it any more must not let it get that bad again

Can I just say the rest of my house is clean

I have used surgery as an excuse to cut right back on christmàs lunch. How on earth did you get lumbered with that?

Instructions will be online if you have lost them. Usually, manufactures webiste, customer service and search by model. I clean my oven much less often than every two years but perhaps I ought to consider it.

Have finally braved the sumatriptan for my headaches and I have to say it does work but I feel a bit woooo. Not opiate wooooo, different wooooo.

Last day of peace, sob, from today I have all the family home and then it is back to work on the 6th. A lovely walk round the park though with all the birdies tweeting and flowers emerging from the ground, snowdrops, that lovely very smelly white flower on a bush, birckwood or whatever it's called.

Now hey for town and consumer madness as I overcompensate and buy my loved ones too much tat.

I have just opened the door off dds slum room . Omfg. It is a sty. She swanned off this morning to'get her hair done' if you don't mind( she's 18btw) time for a rocket and a dyson. And probably disinfectant

We are hosting dh's family for Xmas eve mince pies etc. I am shAttered thinking about it.
Green hope you're feeling a little better soon. There was a dip at 4-5 weeks afair. Felt like things were never going to get better. But they will, they will.

I can't use the surgery excuse anymore. I'm as fit as a fiddle It really is my turn though. I've only ever cooked two before in my life and that was pre dc with only a few of us.

Christmas officially starts tonight. DH finishes work, kids finish school. I'm on a christmas "sleepover" with friends from when I went to secondary school 35 years ago ahem and we've got friends a christmas visiting tomorrow night.

We lost the Hoover the other day. Looked everywhere for it. It was in DDs bedroom, where she had decided to clean up and vacuum.

It literally never occurred to me to look there.....

I couldn't post earlier. There were too many comments about making progress well until 3/4 weeks and then slowing down. I made progress until 7 days then it all stopped. Struggling to imagine regaining full health ever right now

I have been reading the thread from OP who's MiL wishes her to insert a suppository for her and nearly bust my stitches reading the responses. The best was to do it with Sellotape and a long umbrella from a different room.

I have a new oven and am pretty sure it is self cleaning. They all are aren't they don't anyone DARE to tell me otherwise

My DDs are home for Christmas and exDP or current DP (who bloody knows!!!) is coming with his DC so full house and I may take a lot of long naps.... I just hope all goes well and my DDs are ok.

Oh santa it's still early days for you. I feel perfectly normal now. It will be fine in a few weeks. Scouts honour

I'd rather do the suppository thing than have the afternoon I've had.
A bit of advice. Don't put bottles of fizzy drink on your back seat

It rolled off in Tesco car park and sprang a high pressure leak! It's sprayed the ceiling of the car, the car seats, the footwell, the back window, even some on the front window. I got it out of the car, still spraying, and it proceeded to spray the outside of the car. It covered from one side of the roof to the other!
The local car wash place didn't have time to sort it out so I spent over an hour trying to clean it, fused all the plugs trying to dry it with a hair dryer and to top it all, the cleaner I borrowed from a neighbour has made it smell like wet dog! A suppository for the mil sounds lovely by comparison

I think I pulled my groin a bit, opening and closing the heavy garage door too!

Oh well. Onwards and upwards, as they say...