Back on the saddle ...

I picked up some shifts with the agency in Baltimore. I'm rather nervous about going back to work, but I feel it's time ... not to mention I NEED the money! I hate having my parents pay for everything, it's not fair to them. I have a 14.5 hour DAY (ewww) shift in Baltimore, then a two hour orientation in PG County, followed by a 12 hour night shift, and a 8 hour night shift. I get off around 7am Sunday morning and I'm scheduled for surgery Monday at 10:30 am! It's a good way to keep my mind off things, right???

The date is set ...

I got a call this AM from the doctors office to schedule my surgery. This place is on the ball!!! They only do surgery's on Monday's so I am scheduled for Monday the 29th. Next Monday I will go in for my pre op junk ... blood work, paperwork, etc. She said it's a same day procedure with general anastheia. I'm rather nervous ... I've never had anything like this done before. I've always been on the other side during surgeries!

A la ultrasound

Today was the day ... I so love this OBGYN, wonderful staff, so nice and personable which I love. The lady that did the ultrasound was nice, talked to me, explained what she was doing, seeing, blah blah blah. She didn't find any fibroids, but did see a rather large (as in 3 inches) cyst on my left ovary. (A normal ovary is the size of an almond) She said she couldn't say for certain, but it looks like a "chocolate cyst" (ruined my love of chocolate) that is associated with endometriosis. She said the Dr. would look at the print outs from the ultrasound and most likely want to schedule a surgery. She said that once he was in there he could look around which was the only way to diagnose endometriosis, so it was a win win situation for me. She couldn't believe I wasn't in a large amount of pain, but I guess I just chalked it up as normal and dealt with it. Who knew????

Funny how things work ...

Today I went to see my OBGYN. My mom wanted me to go to see if he could shed some light on my PMDD, since nothing seems to help with that and I struggle with awful depression monthly. It's been a couple years since I've gone to an OBGYN, so I was rather over due for the freakin' monthly women check up that I absolutely hate. During the exam he said he felt what he thought was "significant fibroids" and he wanted me to have an ultra sound. So I got that scheduled for Monday. We shall see ...

I didn't mention my PMDD because I got all side tracked with the fibroids, but it's not like I won't be seeing him again soon. I shall keep you updated ...