Several factors lead me here.
It’s likely that I’ll come back and edit this but for now it felt urgent to get this out.
Keep a pillow close to hold against your incision when you need to cough, or sneeze.
Use the spirometer. You don’t want to end up with pneumonia on top of all this.
Also take special care, getting in and out of bed. Try to resist hunching over, and walk every day.
These things helped me get through it. I hope you find them useful.
Read MoreI promise not to turn this into a place where all I talk about is my myomectomy but it’s so fresh and it’s hard not to think about it as I’m just shy of 4 weeks post op.
There was a bit of an emptiness I felt coming home from the hospital, experiencing something like that and coming home without a baby.
It’s not that I was planning on it or expecting.
I think knowing that the experience is so similar to delivering a baby through a c-section, and having the scar and not the baby is so strange.
Read MoreI believe the general silence around this issue is surely linked to the limited research and resources for something that touches the lives of 80% of black women and 70% of white women.
Many women are asymptomatic (meaning they experience no symptoms) and can go through life never noticing them. The rest of us are not so lucky.
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