Today I went in to see the doctor for a little test. It’s nothing serious. I am going to have an optional, very small surgery that was first suggest to me years ago. I was chiding myself earlier today because I was starting to get nervous about the little test. It’s a test I’ve done before. And I am the one that finally decided to move forward with this surgery. So it was silly to get nervous! Here are the highlights! (And I’m probably over-sharing!)
- It was in my head that I needed to drink 64 ounces of water before the test. Then I read my giant water bottle that only went up to 54 ounces. I thought, well that can’t be right. The last time I had a pelvic ultrasound I was pregnant and there is no way that much water AND a baby had fit inside me. Thank you Google for confirming it is 32 ounces of water that is needed! Not 64 ounces! 🤣
- It is MUCH easier to keep 32 ounces of water inside if there is no baby living inside you! And MUCH easier for them to push on your tummy with their machine with 32 ounces of water inside of you without a baby! I mean, like WOWZERS kind of difference here! It didn’t seem like some kind of weird don’t-pee-your-pants torture like I remembered! Hooray!
- I hadn’t previously realized that I also needed an ultrasound in the second way they do that. If you don’t know what I’m referencing, look it up. This isn’t science class! Or keep reading, I kind of give it away in a few sentences here 😆 The last time I had that kind of ultrasound was after a doctor-in-training broke the placenta after I had baby #3 and stuff was left in there. That test was then done in a very sensitive area where I had just pushed out a tiny human, torn myself, AND had fresh stitches. I remember thinking it was worse pain than child birth at that time (and I didn’t have drugs for any of my four children, so keep that in mind when you think of the pain that inflicted on me). Anyway, guess what, if the test is just done normally, like not after child birth with a tear and stitches, it doesn’t hurt at all! I mean, it was like the difference between pulling a tooth out of your mouth in your bathroom without any numbing and just a pair of pliers, versus just brushing your teeth!
- I have went back and forth about this surgery for years. The state of my insides is a result of having four babies each 1.5 years apart from each other, so it wasn’t like an un-natural situation. I created it! So, this just never made it to the top of my to-do list. I felt a leading to push thru with it this time. And, I am certainly thankful for God’s leading here because they did find another development in there that is good to be taken care of while they are in there tidying up my insides!
Tonight I am thankful that today was not torture! Hooray! It was all pretty darn mild and uneventful! Now that is out of the way. Surgery is next – again, it is very small. It is an outpatient thing, only 20 minutes long, they don’t usually give antibiotics or pain medicine. It is that low risk. Pretty easy-peasy! Hooray!
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