tomorrow it will be 3 weeks since my radical hysterectomy . physically i'm doing brilliant a few aches and pains but not half as bad as i thought it would be its really hard not being able to do the hoovering though! mentally i'm finding this time really difficult , after my surgery i asked how the operation went and i was reassured it all went well , but surgeons always seem so busy so i have so many unanswered questions which are rolling about in my head. one of them being why did an expected 3 hour operation take 6 hours!
anyway i rang the hospital monday to see if my results where back and they said try again this friday . i'm wondering whether no news is good news or no news is worry. i just realised this morning that although i'm very organised this year and bought all my presents and looking forward to crimbo , that i don't even know whats next. i've been told 3 different scenario's either they do nothing else ( unlikely ) they do radiotherapy ( probably ) or at a long shot more chemo. all these things have been briefly mentioned to me but nothing set in stone . i was wondering if everybodys treatment plan is so up in the air. so now i'm a bit worried that my xmas plans could be scuppered by whatever they have for me next. i just want to say ' enough ' until the new year, but i guess cancer doesn't wait for christmas does it.
everything just seems so vauge at the momment i had a colposcopy biopsy early in my diagnosis which staged it at 1b i've had mri's and ct's just before my op which showed the tumour hadn't changed no bigger no smaller , but i'm still worried about the results coming back imagining them saying " we're mistaken its stage 4". when i asked the surgeon if he got all the tumour out , which i thought was a fairly straightforward question, he replyed " i'm good but i'm not a miracleworker " it seems i just have to wait for the results.
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A hysterectomy is a pretty big op hun, there's a lot of blood vessels involved. Apparently I bled severely when I had mine and the op went on quite a while. I still recovered quickly and fully. So I wouldn't let the extra time in surgery worry you!
Good luck and I hope you get the results you want hun.
turns out that physically i'm not the superwomen i thought i was ! i've just come back from a 4 hour stint at A and E . started having some really heavy bleeding this evening so i got it all checked out. i didn't even touch the hoovering i promise!!! but i was doing was too much so i've been ordered bed rest but at least i'm back home . i gave me a fright though so i will try and do as i'm told in future .xx
What a fright you must have had! Please TAKE it EASY you deserve a rest !! You have to find the 'least bad' daytime television programmes to get you through it - better than spongebob squarepants! These few weeks where you have t wrap yourself up in cotton wool seem endless but they will pass. Quiet reading with the kids is still productive but not harmful! Best wishes, dont do the dishes!!! (my daughters fav saying) Love Jools x x
