{"id":115,"date":"2005-05-18T19:23:30","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T09:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=115"},"modified":"2005-05-18T19:23:30","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T09:23:30","slug":"ecstatic-and-terrified-all-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/ecstatic-and-terrified-all-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecstatic and terrified &#8230;.. all at the same time !!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my many, many &#8230;.. many problems with my health, struggling with my hormones, coping with my girly works becoming so unreliable that it was making me ill all the time. After fighting peri-menopause, struggling to fall pregnant and failing, and facing the fact of no more children. And after fighting doctors tooth and nail for the last 2 years for some sort of definative answer. After all that &#8230;.. today I finally got an answer.<\/p>\n<p>After moving here, I decided to try again, and so I saw a new gyno today. The poor man looked at the novel sized pile of documentation I gave him, and looked more than a little startled. I was a little more forceful with what I wanted from him &#8230;&#8230; a hysterectomy. He listened to me, asked some questions &#8230;. and showed a great deal of shock when I told him the opinions of my previous gyno&#8217;s. He quizzed me about my hormonal issues, which I was a little reluctant to mention, for fear that he would insist I try chemical control methods (yet again).<\/p>\n<p>And finally he looked at me and said &#8230; &#8220;Well obviously its a no brainer. I feel the best management would be a complete hysterectomy and estrogen implant&#8221;. Not only is he going to give me the hysterectomy I wanted, but he offered to remove my ovaries, therefore removing the major cause of the other symptoms that I have suffered for nearly 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>I stood at the reception desk to pay my bill, and I was shaking. I held it together until we got outside his rooms &#8230;&#8230; and then I had a good cry on hubby&#8217;s shoulder. This is what I have wanted for years. I have a chance of being able to have a normal like life, and quite possibly, some of the PCOS features in my health will be gone.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8230;. in a little over 2 weeks time, I will have my mum here to look after me, and I will be starting the next phase of my life. I am scared, but incredibly happy.<br \/>\nIs it possible to be both?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my many, many &#8230;.. many problems with my health, struggling with my hormones, coping with my girly works becoming so unreliable that it was making me ill all the time. After fighting peri-menopause, struggling to fall pregnant and failing, and facing the fact of no more children. And after fighting doctors tooth and nail &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/archives\/2005\/05\/18\/ecstatic-and-terrified-all-at-the-same-time\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ecstatic and terrified &#8230;.. all at the same time !!!!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Family","category-Personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.castley.net\/brog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}