I printed a health letter!

[ailbhe]

I'm going to see about getting some more of the 2004 birth injuries repaired. I'm just about ready now.

Also my ECG appointment is just after my birthday.


And if my skin still hurts tomorrow I'll go to the GP then too.

Look at me, I'm a grownup.

Comments

[birke]

That is really exciting.

[serene]

You are indeed!

[rmc28]

Go you!

[nwhyte]

Good luck, Ailbhe.

[pauamma]

Go you!

[nakedfaery.livejournal.com]

Good luck. There's nothing lacking in your adult ness because you weren't able to deal with this before. This is a normal response to trauma.

Sebastian was born almost three years ago and although it wasn't traumatic emotionally, there are physical issues that I have as result. I have a cystocele and the ligaments holding up my bladder are knackered. Although I don't have stress incontinence any more since I got help with doing my pelvic floor exercises properly, I still get urge incontinence because when my bladder gets overfull it just gives up and empties. I have about 10 seconds to get to a toilet before my bladder just empties completely. I also get Stuff Happen which I believe is due to an improperly healed urethral and vaginal tear. I tried to get help about 18 months ago and wasn't taken at all seriously. I was given a painful internal ultrasound but no internal examination. As much as I dislike manual internal examinations there's no way a pelvic ultrasound would be able to detect the problem. My gp has said that there is definitely something wrong there and finally referred me to a specialist, but it's taken me another 18 months to get up the mental spoons to make myself do this. It involved a fair amount of being awkward and insistent, which I'm not very good at doing.

I really hope they can help you and that you can feel happier with how everything is down there.