If I've done this right it's a blog post.
After 9 months of mis-diagnosis and appalling GP "care". I was finally referred to gynecologist on 2 week fast track by an amazing consultant at the STD clinic..Had biopsy, 8 weeks later results showing VIN3, 4 weeks later in for surgery.
Despite having done a lot of research, as sadly the consultant gives little detail, the experience so far for me has been worse than I imagined, which was bad, I was terrified of surgery, age 58 never had surgery before. Only the 4 hypnotherapy sessions I had got me through that.
After surgery I was informed they had not managed to get all the cancerous cells and will more than likely require more surgery.
Having said that, the first 2 weeks were not to bad, discomfort and a lot of pain killers, even started a new hobby to while away the lonely hours.
Exactly 2 weeks I began spotting blood from wound, which was of course a Friday, by Sunday the pain arrived, fortunately first thing Monday I booked GP appointment, which is interesting when you can't sit and barely walk, not the best car journey, short walk from car park took me forever as by the time I got there the pain was quite something. Lovely GP gently took a look, could see were bleed was, not enough to be anything sinister and pointed toward infection which she gave me ABs for. That was 3 days ago, still in pain not sleeping as I can't lie on either side. Feeling pretty rubbish.
So, it's exactly 3 weeks today. Now in bed with tv, cba to do anything else just now, probably due to being tired. My only hope now is it will soon be better, I think many others of various surgery say week 3 is the worst, so approaching week 4 has to be better - right?
