Such relief – Hayley’s story

The post Such relief – Hayley’s story appeared first on Hysterectomy Association. I had always looked forward to having children , unfortunately after two failed attempts of IVF we decided to call it a day. Each month was no picnic but was told by my doctor (what did you expect every month!); I’m no longer see this doctor. So put up with what I thought was normal. After my mum died in 2014 from ovarian cancer mum left it to late and of should of had a hysterectomy 30 years ago but was too frightened of the operation and hospitals. After seeing mum die the way she did frightened me more than the operation so I decided to get checked fortunately after biopsy, blood tests and long talks with the consultant it was decided that I have full Hysterectomy. I had put up with a lot of discomfort each month I found out why was because I had been told I had thyroid’s and cysts when I was having the the scans through IVF. To continue with the IVF I had had 3 small procedure’s. My op was 20 July 2015( just turned 50 ) my op took 41/2 hrs due to a lesion which was attached to my bowel, bladder, womb and appendix they had to bring another surgeon in before my hysterectomy op could go ahead hence the length of my operation. I remember looking at the clock in recovery and it was 3.10pm; I’d gone down at 9.00am. I can say hand on heart it wasn’t as bad as I thought, this is coming from someone who doesn’t do hospitals. Once I was back on the ward...
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