Uterus Anniversary…

by | Dec 13, 2007 | Uncategorized

I totally missed it and for that I feel shame. But I have to spam to mention it.

1 year ago on December 6th, my uterus, fallopian tubes, and one remaining ovary were cut from my body!! I have been in menopause a year. I’m 31 years old and on a menopause patch. Not as tragic as if I’d been 18, of course…or if I’d only had one child, not the 3 ring circus I do have…but still. It feels odd.

My consolation is that if I weren’t uterus free I’d still be dealing with spending money on pads/tampons…I’d have that gross sick mess that made me feel disgusting and dirty every month…and I’d still be in pain. The relief from the pain is the best part…even if it has been replaced with the hassle of patch-work on my ass.

Of course, my metabolism became shot in this. I now weigh what I did when I was 9 months pregnant with my girls and have that sick gross loose skin that two years of being pregnant twice in a row can put on you.

But I am free of the pain of chronic cysts. When I was 20 I developed a cyst. I was told it would burst. I got pregnant, the cyst was still there…I was told it would shrink. It didn’t. A year later my 5 pound cyst was removed. We say “along with the ovary”…but there was no ovary left…just a mass. From that time on I had regular pain…painful periods…random pain when I would stand, lift, bend over…it didn’t matter.

At 28 I knew I had another one. I was blessed with a doctor that immediately did an u/s instead of arguing with me…and offered to remove it, or try to make it shrink first. I took blood thinners for a month and thankfully it dissipated. From there I was blessed with two pregnancies.

After K was born I knew it was happening again. I went to my OB, he did an u/s because of my history. A cyst was there but they believed it to be functioning…so I was told to just relax it would go away. Two months later I went back and demanded another u/s. The cyst was now 2 inches (not huge, but big). He offered to just remove the cyst, I said no. I didn’t want it to ever happen again. I’d had 3 kids and wasn’t interested in ever having anymore (If I do “have” more kids I’d adopt)…and could he please take it all out?

He informed me it would send me into menopause.

I told him my mother went into menopause at 33. I have always followed my mother in the reproductive aspects of my life (she had cysts too, but PCOS, not my issue)…so I knew I would. I also informed him I was relatively sure I was in pre-menopause already.

He agreed and a week later I was without my womanly parts. I felt better than I had in years…well, except the extreme surgery pain *lol*

So just a quick memorial for the things I lost…and a happy joy that I’ve made it a year, and still feel better than I ever did in my fertile years!!

I’m done!!!

by | Dec 13, 2007 | Uncategorized

I’m feeling mildly accomplished today. Only mildly…but accomplished none the less.

I just confirmed an order on Amazon.com that will complete my Christmas shopping for the year!! The kids have been done for a week and a half, but I had to purchase one final thing for Erik. It’s all done now!

Now I just have a bit list to complete….
1. Dishes (seriously, my kitchen’s a pit right now)
2. Laundray (ongoing forever and ever)
3. Finish organizing my desk (another mild pit)
4. Sewing (purses must be finished)
5. Knitting (must finish mom’s sweater by christmas)
6. Wrap presents
7. Bake second round of cookies
8. Insurance paperwork (and all other applicable paperwork found on desk)
9. Put away girls’ clothes (currently piled in laundry baskets in living room)
10. AmVets comes on 12/20 for outgrown girls clothes (including the most adorable jacket ever *pout)

The list is ever growing…we’ll see how I knock it out!!

I’m a terrible wife…

by | Dec 13, 2007 | Uncategorized

I stole my husband’s phone from him.

Several weeks ago we went to the AT&T store to get new phones. They only had one in stock of the one I REALLY wanted, which was an update of my phone, the walkman phone…the Sony w550i:

The new one is really nice, sleek. You can bump up your memory with a card to put more songs/pictures on it…take pictures in B&W. They have it in white, but you can’t get the white one anywhere but online (or apparently Best Buy). It’s quite depressing, actually…but, still, it’s nice in black, too, see:

So, anyway, the store only had one. Erik wanted it…so I didn’t fight, and let him have it. I bought the Samsun SYNC. I took it back two days later. HATED it. I went back to my old version of the walkman.

Last night I switched phones with Erik. He’s been pestering me for the past couple of weeks knowing I wanted it…so last night I did it. I stole his phone.

BAD wife.

He says he’ll get a razr in the spring, which is what he really wanted anyway (not sure why he didn’t get one then). He doesn’t like the walkman so much because it doesn’t come with a custom case…and he LOVES the custom cases. So, that’s why he wants the razr. Silly boy 😛

Wordless Wednesday??

by | Dec 12, 2007 | CF, Crap

You know ladies and gents…I’ve thought about it…but I just cannot be silent for a full day most of the time. If I HAD to be silent on a day I know it jsut wouldn’t happen *giggle* So I doubt I will ever be participating in Wordless Wednesday.

But I DID get a fun picture for this weeks upcoming Picture Hunt. So I may start doing that in time for the new year. I keep meaning to better my picture taking (I’m hoping for a fancy schmancy digital next year, our current one sucks monkey butt)…so that gives me an excuse and a challenge 😀

CF Clinic was today. K was a total witch again. Throwing herself down on the floor (which, by the way, is 3 feet of concrete with a pretty layer of tile on it…how can that NOT hurt??)…throwing a huge fit pretty much 98% of the time we were there. Dr. was a doll…I just adore her…she called me insane for backing 5 different types of cookies (I didn’t tell her I was planning on making a second round of 4 of those types).

Umm…oh yes. Car worked like a dream. Like there was absolutely nothing wrong with it ever. We’re thinking the fuel got frozen in the line or something…I hadn’t run it in about 36 hours….and it gets COLD at night here!!