After wards

So yesterday morning I took my pills, had a shower, got dressed, got into a taxi, went to the hospital, found my way to the very poorly signposted Adult Day Surgery Unit mainly because people going to work noticed I looked lost and helped me, and took off almost all my clothes and got into a hospital gown. A lot of the hospital gowns are missing tapes at the back, it turns out. Luckily I had a dressing gown.

The whole thing was fine, except that THREE people asked me "Is there a chance you might be pregnant?" - No - "Do you want a pregnancy test?" - No. Then when it was time for my op the porter checked I'd been to the loo, and wheeled me down. And THEN, one of the people who had spoken to me BEFORE I went to the loo, the actual SURGEON, said they wouldn't do the op unless I had a pregnancy test.

So they wheeled me from the pre-theatre anaesthetic room into recovery, which was just BRILLIANT for my PTSD, and of course there are absolutely no toilets in recovery, so they got a bedpan, but weirdly people who've been nil by mouth for six hours and made sure to pee before going to theatre don't have full bladders. It turns out.

It didn't matter what I said about my own body, cycle, sexual life, etc... He wouldn't take my word for it AND HE COULD HAVE CHECKED EARLIER.

Eventually the senior consultant came in and talked to me and HE seemed to believe me but he said they'd have to do a test anyway, for Legal Reasons (which sounds like Because Reasons to me) and so I had to have a

FUCKING CATHETER.

The most pain I was in all yesterday was from the catheter. I hate catheters. They are incredibly bad for my continence and I hate hate hate them.

Now I'm feeling just as ill as I was on Tuesday before the hospital, but I can't tell if it's because of the period I was having anyway or because of the op.

AND ANOTHER THING

The same doctor who had the chance to require a pregnancy test earlier but didn't make clear it was non-optional until it was too late? He also talked over me when saying "reason for procedure" - He said "reason for procedure, contraception," and I said "No, to control my periods," and he said "Oh no, it's for contraception." WTF? Contraception is for people who are well enough to have sex lives, sunshine. Take your pregnancy test and shove it.

Twitter

I have the following follow requests and I don't know who these people are. Is it you?

Carrie Sheinbein @Donampii
Laura (dusty_rose) @TutusNTinyHats
Marianna @GreenMamasPad
James Weston @GorlestonJames
Monika Eggers @GreenSkyOverMe
Stephie @MonocledCat
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Nikki Traynor @dancinginmypjs
Emma @pseudodeviant
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Jules LoVecchio @Diran_Sky
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Gill Shackleton @galena_g
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Sara Sara @Teh_Woo
Fiona ON @famron
Emily Morrell @emslondon
John O'Dwyer @TheSliverParty
Irina @irinarempt
Richard Cooke @rmcooke42
Vicky @vickyosullivan
me and me @arandomstranger
Dawn R @Boneist
Jacqui Crane @__jacqui__
aphie @aphie
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AlisonW @AlisonW

Stuff we're planning

It's ages since I posted regularly so probably only people who encounter me elseweb have any idea what's going on.

We're having the loft professionally converted and also putting in more toilets and opening up the ground floor a bit. Now that the architecture part of it is pretty much settled I've moved on to the interior design phase and that's just too exciting for words. With any luck the bits we're paying other people to do will be over by midsummer.

I've ordered various flower things to plan in the garden in spring and I hope they don't die. I'd like to have a nice garden.

I've had this coil fitted and I should be functional more than 1/3 of the time now.

This summer will include our tenth wedding anniversary, and I've promised Linnea we'll have a party.

We have faint plans to take a family holiday NOT to visit other parts of our families, but we're using up Rob's annual leave for illness so you never know. The children REALLY want to.

I'm still painting a bit. I've been ill enough that it's been not much. But it will be more!