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Hi Christmas,

You made me laugh!!! I had to do injections for 6 weeks! The policy at my hospital was 4 weeks, but years ago my daughter had a DVT, and it was discovered that she has a gene predisposing her to thrombosis. The other girl was tested, and has it, too. They have blood thinning injections while pregnant, and before long haul flights. Before my operation I mentioned this, because I could be a carrier. I was tested twice, but they lost my results!! So the consultant treated me as if I had the gene, 6 weeks of injections.

And, as if that wasn't enough I had great problems getting rid of my Sharps box. The doctors wouldn't take it. It was a trek to the hospital. In the end I rang the council (wrong one at first, because we are on the edge of two). They sent a van and I had to fill in a form and hand the box over personally!! What a palaver.

xxxxx 

Hi Christmas, my discharge letter said 2 months of Fragmin!! But the discharge nurse said that must be a mistake and  I'm  sending you home with 2 weeks and if it's any different I'll  let you know. I  never heard  anything and to be fair the consultant had told me it would only be 2 week's! He also told me he would ring me with the histology results  in around 2 weeks and  sure enough one of his nurses called me at 8.30am in the morning the day after the MDT meeting and less than 2 weeks  after surgery with the good news of no more treatment.I  have to say that I couldn't fault  the NHS, from my first visit to the GP , the only  real wait I had was after the hystoscapthy which diagnosed a small  polyp until the removal of it 4 weeks  later, after they found the cancer cells things moved very swiftly  indeed.

I was given 4 weeks of heparin shots post op to self inject at home. . Everyone on my ward was sent home with the same.. I am seriously needle phobic and so at my post op follow up 10 days later, I asked if I could stop doing them as I was recovering well and I found doing them very distressing. I was told very seriously that I needed to do them for full 28 days post op to minimise chance of DVT. I managed them by numbing site with Emla cream 

Hi Carolina61 

Thank you for your reply, you’ve reassured me I can stop the injections. Good news about you and your mum.

I received the news over the phone that a uterine polyp contained grade 3 cancer. The shocking call came from a nurse a week prior to my clinic appointment so I wasn’t expecting it.

Post hysterectomy my appointment for results is not until 8 January but every time I get a call from an unknown caller my stomach does somersaults in case it’s the nurse again with the results.

I decided to ignore any such calls so I could at least enjoy Christmas but I answer them every time!!!

There are now two voices in my head; one says don’t answer and leave it til January the other says it’s better to know before the clinic appointment in case it’s bad news and I get upset with an audience!

Torturing myself!