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Oh good lord.

This has gotten so fucking old. So, I had the MRI. Good news is that my various problems do not include adenomyosis. Thank god for small favors. Bad news is, there is an unexplained, er, thingy still in my uterus. Despite the heavy period. Despite my doctor’s poking around in there with the HSG catheter [...]

Dog… and other good things in an otherwise shitty summer

First off – Dog. Dog is good. Her name is Nellie – as in “Nervous Nellie” or possibly “Nosy Nellie”. She is, what could charitably be called, timid. Since my previous dog was so overly confident that she once jumped into a river. From a cliff. To rescue my husband. Who actually wasn’t drowning. Even [...]

Second opinion

Well. Not in so many words, but my doctor just basically said to me that Dr. Bigshot’s full of shit. Ok, so not really, I’m reading between the lines here, but he did express professional disagreement with Bigshot’s insta-diagnosis of “worst case of Adenomyosis I’ve ever seen.” My doctor thinks this bleeding is just the [...]

Adenomyosis

Ah fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Went in for another HCG test today & mentioned that I’m still bleeding, er, heavily. Wasn’t my doctor but the gruff guy whose bedside manner sucks. Looks like all ‘products of conception’ have left the building, but, I’ve developed(?) “the most severe case of adenomyosis [doctor] has ever seen” Fuck. [...]