donkey jess 🦓🫀 | 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 on Instagram: "2022 threw a big, ugly curve ball right as she's fixin to roll over to next year.
2.5 weeks ago, I had major surgery: a #hysterectomy to treat #endometriosis which has been a brewing, growing piece of my ongoing #chronicillness that's infiltrated my life for over 5 years now. I knew at some point I'd need the surgery, but put it off until I just couldn't take the impact it was having on my quality of life anymore, it being an invasive & risky procedure, after all.
The #surgery went well, no complications, I was told, & so thus the recovery would begin.
An odd thing happened in the hospital, however; a bad reaction to medication or temporary sickness, I'm not sure, but I spent an entire night ferociously vomiting which split an incision & god knows what it might have done to my raw & swollen insides. But, I stabilized & two days later, was discharged.
Two weeks later (only a few days ago) I began to hemorrhage. Bad. On instructions from my Dr, I rushed to the ER where, through a series of events & an overwhelmed & frustrating hospital system where navigating as a patient is more often than not, a total nightmare, I was rushed into emergency surgery 24 hrs later, after an enormous amount of blood had been lost.
The surgery, risky again, showed a rupture that could've happened during the bad night the first time around, but no one is sure. Either way, they had to completely open me back up, re-slicing tender incisions that had only begun to scab. A 2nd surgeon had to be brought in during the surgery due to the complexity of the problem.
"We stopped the bleeding" they told me when I woke up, still foggy with #anesthesia, but we can't confirm what caused this or why. They found some other things which I won't get into, but they were "glad I came in" because had I waited any longer, I'd have "needed a blood transfusion."
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donkey jess 🦓🫀 | 𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 shared a post on Instagram: "2022 threw a big, ugly curve ball right as she's fixin to roll over to next year.
2.5 weeks ago, I had major surgery: a #hysterectomy to treat #endometriosis which has been a brewing, growing piece of my ongoing #chronicillness that's infiltrated my life for over 5 years now. I knew at some point I'd need the surgery, but put it off until I just couldn't take the impact it was having on my quality of life anymore, it being an invasive & risky procedure, after all.
The #surgery went well, no complications, I was told, & so thus the recovery would begin.
An odd thing happened in the hospital, however; a bad reaction to medication or temporary sickness, I'm not sure, but I spent an entire night ferociously vomiting which split an incision & god knows what it might have done to my raw & swollen insides. But, I stabilized & two days later, was discharged.
Two weeks later (only a few days ago) I began to hemorrhage. Bad. On instructions from my Dr, I rushed to the ER where, through a series of events & an overwhelmed & frustrating hospital system where navigating as a patient is more often than not, a total nightmare, I was rushed into emergency surgery 24 hrs later, after an enormous amount of blood had been lost.
The surgery, risky again, showed a rupture that could've happened during the bad night the first time around, but no one is sure. Either way, they had to completely open me back up, re-slicing tender incisions that had only begun to scab. A 2nd surgeon had to be brought in during the surgery due to the complexity of the problem.
"We stopped the bleeding" they told me when I woke up, still foggy with #anesthesia, but we can't confirm what caused this or why. They found some other things which I won't get into, but they were "glad I came in" because had I waited any longer, I'd have "needed a blood transfusion."
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