History Repeats

I've spent the weekend curled up in or on my bed. No, it wasn't cos of kinky things.

Ten years ago I got terrible pains down my right-hand side. I vomited a little but the doctor just sent me away with painkillers. A month later it came back and this time a new doctor sent me to hospital with suspected appendicitis. It was quickly decided that wasn't the case and I was sent for a scan. Turns out I had cysts growing on my right ovary, they'd spun and pretty much screwed up a lot inside. Two months later I had an operation. They tried to save my ovary - I was only fourteen at the time so they tried to keep it. I went home feeling sore and old and tired but at least no longer worrying about cysts.

A year later I was back in hospital. The cysts had returned. So this time they took out my ovary (which was dead anyway) and then sent me on my way again.

Everything's been fine since then, apart from very painful and heavy periods (which is to be expected after my body's ordeal). Last month I had period pain that lasted forty-eight hours - non-stop. This month the pain in my right-hand side returned. And it stayed for forty-eight hours.

I've discussed it with my mother and she agrees that I shouldn't have more cysts on my right-hand side because the ovary that was making the cysts is no longer there. So it's possible but not very probable. She wondered if maybe it was scar-tissue giving me problems. Strange it suddenly starts acting up now, though. We ruled out pregnancy because of the heavy period and the heavy periods that have come every month before then. We wondered about a muscle pull, what with the pain feeling like a contraction, we knew it had to be muscle-related. But, as of yet, none of us can decide what's wrong with me. The female doctor isn't in 'til Thursday so I'll have to wait 'til then to see what she says. But this is the doctor that said there was nothing wrong with me the first time so I know I'm going to have to push her into sending me for a scan other wise she'll just tell me it's just period pain - which I know it's not.

So in between rolling around in pain, I got the house cleaned up in time for Mammy and Daddy's return from South Africa. I missed their return because I was in bed (it was 1:30am) but did get up at 7:30 the next morning to talk to them about it all. It sounds like an amazing holiday. Elephants and lions and giraffes; the pictures of the landscape are amazing. I'm quite jealous. The house is a mess again now, as we knew it would be after a return from a holiday, so I think I'll clean again today been as the pain has gone.

No word on when my laptop's coming yet. The last email I got said they were starting to process my order... Hurry up PC World!

Labels: daddy, doctors, holidays, hospital, illness, laptop, mammy, operations

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