I haven't posted here in ages but I need to get it out: After 6 years in my current job, being in my early forties, I will finally get a permanent work contract for the first time in my life. I'm so relieved.
ApatoFuture
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I'm in the process of moving from Goodreads to TheStoryGraph. Are any of my Mastodon friends there?
Also see https://www.polygon.com/platform/amp/24026840/storygraph-goodreads-alternative-reading-book-tracking-app
I have a bunch of intellectual(ish) literature waiting on my e-reader, but for the last couple weeks I've been reading one tropey #urbanFantasy novel after the other.
(Varying from quite good, like the #KateDaniels series, to really REALLY bad Shapeshifter Fated Mate Reverse Harem stuff).
I've been sneakily documenting them as "read" on Goodreads, but not posting them on my feed so the handful of friends I have there don't judge me for the amount of trash I consume 🙃.
Tonight's screen program:
#GenV S1E4 (2023) - Spouse wanted to watch too. Warned them there might be penis close ups and exploding people. And what do you know, an exploding penis close up right at the start of the episode!
#Loki S2S1 (2023) - I really don't like time travel and alternative universe stories, but I'm a sucker for bureaucracy chic so I mainly watch it for the set design.
View to a Kill (1985) - Young(ish) Christopher Walken is nice, old(ish) Roger Moore isn't. #JamesBond
2.5 weeks post #endometriosis surgery. Except for some pinching in my stomach everything feels okay. The most annoying thing is actually the scar in my belly button, which hurts a bit.
I'm starting #gestagen therapy (#dienogest) soon and I'm quite scared of the side effects. As someone who has a history of anxiety and depression and just managed to loose 60 pounds of overweight, side effects like "mood swings", "depression" and "weight gain" do not sound appealing at all 😬
I'm starting #gestagen therapy (#dienogest) soon and I'm quite scared of the side effects. As someone who has a history of anxiety and depression and just managed to loose 60 pounds of overweight, side effects like "mood swings", "depression" and "weight gain" do not sound appealing at all 😬
This is my first ever hospital stay. I'm amazed how often someone comes in the room.
In just 1 day:
8x for meals (3 meals, 1 snack, bring and fetch tray each time)
1x surgeon to explain surgery results
1x anesthesiologist to check anesthesia after-effects
1x cleaning staff
Nurses:
2x to check surgery wounds (1x at 5 am)
2x to take blood pressure
1x to fetch me for kidney ultrasound
1x to remove drainage tube
1x to remove iv port
1x to take blood
1x to give thrombosis injection
In just 1 day:
8x for meals (3 meals, 1 snack, bring and fetch tray each time)
1x surgeon to explain surgery results
1x anesthesiologist to check anesthesia after-effects
1x cleaning staff
Nurses:
2x to check surgery wounds (1x at 5 am)
2x to take blood pressure
1x to fetch me for kidney ultrasound
1x to remove drainage tube
1x to remove iv port
1x to take blood
1x to give thrombosis injection
(...) I don't even know what my point is. Have to stay in hospital for another night and too much time to think.
Anyway....
I'm very grateful for my knowledgeable doctors. And for people like @erbse who've been vocal about endometriosis. Thanks to them I was really well informed even before I had any idea I had it myself.
(...) In the recovery room, while slowly coming out of the anesthesia haze, the surgeon came in and said something about a "5 centimeter chocolate cyst", "more endometriosis tissue", "stitched your ovary together so it looks like an ovary again".
Turns out I have super duper stage 3 (of 3) #endometriosis in my ovary, peritoneum, pelvic wall, and possibly also uterus. 😬
And almost no symptoms. Crazy. (...)
(...) My gyn referred me to a specialist who did another ultrasound and basically said "yup, that cyst needs to be removed, could be endo, can only really tell by cutting you open" and wanted to give me a surgery date one week later. I talked him "down" to a date six weeks later.
In the months since the cyst showed up I started to feel some pinching and mild cramping, but no serious pain.
Yesterday I had my (endoscopic) surgery. (...)
I know I haven't posted here in a while. Need to get some things off my chest.
I've always been very fortunate in that I've never had any serious period pain or other cycle issues, apart from mild PMS. A year ago my gyn saw something on my ovary during a routine ultrasound check and told me to have it checked every couple months. Over the months the thing turned out to be a growing cyst, and there were signs in the sonogram pointing to #endometriosis. (...)