One Ovary Down.One To Go.
By CJ Wells
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Find out what happens when you are dealing with fibroids and you have little money and no health insurance to deal with it. At some point something has to give. You've gone to the doc and the box twice in one year for pain in your right side. Everyone seems to think you have one of two things: kidney stones or your appendix might be ready to blow. They send you on your way with a few pain meds and say if the pain continues you should go to the emergency room. A third time that year you find yourself at the doctor but this time they send you straight to the emergency. The do an ultra sound to find out what's going on. Instead of it being an appendix they can't seem to find your uterus. That doesn't sound right? Come to find out you have three massive fibroids and your right ovary is getting ready to rupture because the blood flow to it has been cut off. This requires emergency surgery on a Saturday and you may not see next week if it doesn't happen. The fun doesn't stop there. Your parents are flying in for your emergency surgery and they're going to meet someone they've never met before.
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One Ovary Down.One To Go. - CJ Wells
One Ovary Down.
One to Go.
CJ Wells.
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Table of Contents
Two years in the making
Kidney Stones??
Vomiting in a grocery bag
You’re not dying on my couch
I can’t find your uterus
They don’t approve
There is no way they are calling tonight
I don’t want to sound like a man
The family grapevine
This is not Grey’s Anatomy
You’ve opened my heart
Yes, you can have sex now
Myomectomy and Oophorectomy
$40,000 gamble
Acknowledgments and Credits
Two years in the making
Who the hell is calling me at 6:30 in the morning?
It didn’t matter—I was up cleaning the water spilled by the cat on the coffee table anyway. He had a bad habit of wanting to drink out of water cups that were left out. Never mind that Jen had bought him a $40 water fountain. Since I was up, I’d had a bowl of cereal, so that I could take a pill. I picked up the phone. Hello.
May I speak to CJ?
Speaking.
If she was calling at 6:30 in the morning it couldn’t be good.
It’s Susan, Dr. Jo’s nurse.
Good morning. So, what’s the good word?
I knew it wasn’t going to be good, but I made a cheery voice away.
When was the last time you ate?
About 15 minutes ago.
Don’t eat anything else.
Ok, what's up?
My voice wasn’t so cheery anymore.
You’re going to have emergency surgery.
I could not speak. Finally she continued.
I need for you to get to the hospital as soon as possible. How far away are you?
15 minutes or so.
Check in at the ER and tell them that you're there to see Susan.
Ok, thank you.
I sat there for a moment, taking it all in. The sun was rising and my favorite cardinal had paid a visit to the feeder on the deck.
I wish that I could say this all just came about — but it didn’t. This was one year in the making.
One September day, I found myself sprawled out on my couch in intense pain. This was far worse than the cramps that I had become accustomed to since I started menstruating. This was a dull aching pain that wouldn’t go away, no matter what I took and no matter what I did.
Later that day, I drove to my boss’s house to do some admin work. His house was 45 minutes from my own. Based on the pain I was experiencing, I didn't think I would make it onto the basketball court that evening. I lay prostrate in pain on his couch.
My boss and I had an interesting relationship. It seemed perfectly normal to us and to the people who knew the truth. I would sometimes stay at his house, in my own room, if I didn’t want to drive back to downtown Atlanta. The 45 minute commute was a bitch, mix in some