Day 1 (Saturday) - Part 3

Consider this my intro post! Where you get to meet me (quite intimately from here forward) and learn more about uterine fibroids (if you aren't already well acquainted with your own, hehe).

Me (Sara): Age 33; about 5'5" 130lbs; African American/Caucasian mix.

Fibroid: Buried away within my torso was a grapefruit-sized fibroid (non-cancerous tumor) growing off the back of my uterus.

Needless to say, this was not comfortable. It was causing constipation, very frequent pees, and discomfort during sex. All of these were interfering with my every day life, though I was convincing myself otherwise since I wasn't having the more pronounced symptoms like super heavy periods and intense cramping.

Interestingly, in my web searching prior to surgery, I hadn't come across this CommonHealth blog post before now. It is a great explanation of the exact procedure I had (though I had a different surgeon--you can meet Dr. Elizabeth Gagliardi here, and hear her talk about fibroid removal here):

The other video in the post actually takes you through the medical/robotic steps of the surgery. I didn't post it because it makes me a little squeamish, but it is a great visual of what happens.

So that's the intro: who I am, what I had, and what I did about it.

From here on it's going to be about my experience in recovery mode.