Lush again, hospital again
Jan. 24th, 2006 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheThe other day I used the Ultimate Shine shampoo bar for the first time. It was, as I was promised, fine. My previous solid shampoo experience was with handmade shampoo which left my hair incredibly sticky and unpleasant, was almost impossible to rinse out, and needed a further vinegar rinse afterwards. The Lush shampoo lathered up beautifully (though I must have less lathering hair than some others, because it took several strokes through my hair to get enough to work it in as far as my scalp, and I needed to do a second wash, too, to get my hair clean), rinsed out easily, and left my hair looking clean and manageable. It's not as soft and silky as I'd like, nor very shiny, but I'll give it a few washes to get used to the new shampoo.
This evening I had my second Butterball Bath Bomb bath. It was very pleasant, my skin feels soft and smooth, it smelt lovely (Rob said "Oooh, vanilla!" as I dropped it in, and he has an incredible headcold at the moment), and I won't be buying another one, because they cost £1.70 apiece which is, frankly, daft.
We went to hospital today and had two appointments. The first was with the colo-rectal specialist, and it's a sort of case-closing appointment. I can expect to get better until menopause, more or less, when Unmentionable Trauma might occur as I lose pelvic floor tone (except hello, I no longer HAVE a pelvic floor, I have a sort of pelvic fishing net grille thing).
The second was with a gynaecologist who specilises in vulvas. And we have determined that the main source of my pain is not birth trauma, scarring, or anything else like that - it's a simple inflammation, readily treatable, and after treatment the pain will go away and not come back.
We are very very happy.
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:03 pm (UTC)really?!
OH WOW!
congratulations :D i am so happy for you :D
n.
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:20 pm (UTC)I'm insanely glad something is going to happen, hopefully very soon, and here's also hoping that your pelvic fishnet somehow develops some tone or something.
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 10:54 pm (UTC)Here's to feeling better and working better!
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Date: 2006-01-25 12:02 am (UTC)I'm just glad it didn't happen in Ireland, where repair work is really hard to come by even if you're willing to pay, and they have Active Management of Labour so they don't allow you to labour more than 12 hours - they intervene with a section at that point unless you have the energy to put up a fight. I know a woman in Ireland who had much the same injuries as me, but took 2 years to get the repair work I got at 8 months. And she wasn't even breastfeeding, which was the reason for the delay with me.
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Date: 2006-01-25 12:06 am (UTC)Is there anything you can do to improve the pelvic floor area? Do you still have muscles there to work on?
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Date: 2006-01-25 12:11 am (UTC)Um, that's e.e.cummings. I have muscles, but no nerves, is the thing - I *think* I'm flexing them but 50% of the time I'm not, or I think they're relaxed and they're not, or something.
But that's getting better gradually - for a few weeks after the birth I couldn't relax enough to pee without sitting in warm water.
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Date: 2006-01-25 10:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:41 pm (UTC)So simple, and yet it's an idea they seemed to have been lacking for so long!
I'm really glad that a) they seem willing to help, and b) they've found a way to help.
And huuuuuuuge congratulations on the baby-expecting bit!
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Date: 2006-01-29 10:49 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 11:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 10:09 pm (UTC)The second was with a gynaecologist who specilises in vulvas. And we have determined that the main source of my pain is not birth trauma, scarring, or anything else like that - it's a simple inflammation, readily treatable, and after treatment the pain will go away and not come back.
We are very very happy.
That's phenomenal! I'm so glad you finally got a straight answer out of someone, and such wonderful news too! Congratulations on persisting in your slog through the medical system. I'm absolutely thrilled for you that it's paid off so well.
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:13 pm (UTC)Go you!
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Date: 2006-01-25 09:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:15 pm (UTC)that's fabulous!
okay, i am doing a little chair dance here! i am so excited for you!
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-24 10:32 pm (UTC)Also, I've done a Lush order & am going to try a different deoderant to last time (aromacreme I think was what I couldn't use) Will see if it's any better for me.
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Date: 2006-01-24 10:33 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-24 11:47 pm (UTC)And I do have much less painful and unalterable injuries from the birth, so everyone including me thought that they might be the problem, too.
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Date: 2006-01-25 10:57 am (UTC)Seriously, that sounds like excellent news. Hope the inflammation clears up with all speed.
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Date: 2006-01-24 11:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-25 10:35 am (UTC)Fantastic. That's wonderful.
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Date: 2006-01-25 11:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-25 12:29 pm (UTC)big hugs and a few tears and so on
LBs
Julie
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