I am here to tell you, in case you are one of the lucky people who does not already know, that an endometrial biopsy collection is not pleasant. (I mean, I’ve had worse. But I sure wouldn’t do this for fun.)
I agree that major surgery isn’t fun. Major surgery at 51 is also less fun than it would have been at age 20. I do wish, though, that someone had listened to 20-year-old me when I said I was never going to use this thing and please please could I get rid of it. My quality of life between then and now would have been indescribably better.
I can say definitively that that (the yanking) was not a good time, either. We started out searching for reasons why I was anemic and ended up with "well, it ain't cancerous but it ain't right either" and I got a six week vacation of which the first four weeks were totally miserable.
On the other hand, if I ignore the whole getting back into shape issues (my abs hate me), it's been brilliant after that.
Yeah, I have had other surgeries and the recovery is never fun. But I'm a firm believer in balancing a one-time cost (even if high) against a permanent ongoing improvement. I'm near the end of the time span when that balance comes out well, and I'm deeply resentful that I didn't have this done when the benefits could have lasted several more decades.
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Man I wish they’d yank mine.
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I don't remember the biopsy being a very big deal. But it was nearly 5 years ago now, so maybe my brain decided not to focus on some of those details.
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Ah well. So it goes.
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On the other hand, if I ignore the whole getting back into shape issues (my abs hate me), it's been brilliant after that.
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