yourdarlinglittlesammy:

My stitches are fine and there’s no sign of any excess internal bleeding [there was some the first few days after surgery, but they expected as much]. 

My doc spent a bit of time trying to explain to me what it looked like inside of me, and after awhile I made a mental comparison that should make sense to at least some of you - it looked like a Starcraft Zerg creep. Like. There wasn’t just a few cysts and lesions, it wasn’t even a number of growths, it was just spreading absolutely everywhere - the ovaries, tubes, everything involving the uterus, intestines, bowel, bladder, like the entire pelvic cavity, and my diaphragm. Like I hired an interior decorator and he just wallpapered my abdomen. It was crushing things and causing bowel obstructions and internal bleeding and just destroying everything slowly.

I don’t know shit about endo, I’ll be the first to admit that, but he kept trying to emphasize how uncommon the severity of my condition is.

I’ve got about 5 weeks of recovery ahead of me. Pain killers and iron supplements [my blood tests have shown that from the blood loss during the surgery, my iron count is heeeella low] and breathing exercises [the removals on my diaphragm has made my breathing labored and difficult. I still can’t sigh or cough yet, but I am up to normal-sized breaths] in the meantime. Then I meet back up with him on March 15th when we’re going to start a monthly injection and to talk about the next surgery.

So now I have a month of doing nothing but taking it easy and being impatient.