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Today has been interesting. Our potbelly pig, who is a rescue and my mom's baby knocked down part of his pen. He's very sweet, very old, he came with the name Bacon, and my mom adores and spoils him. Luckily, because he is so sweet he didn't really mind that his pen was knocked over and let my dad work on fixing it without much of a fuss. He just wanted his shower and refilled mud puddle. So all in all, crisis averted. I distracted the horses with treats, dad fixed the pen, everyone is happy. Farm life is never dull.
He's a happy guy.
Okay so today I had to make an OBGYN appointment. I am a trans man, I use he and him pronouns and am a guy, but I have, you know, a vagina. So it needs routine checkups and I've been have some spoonie problems with it that make me worried I may have Ovarian Cysts which run in my family. ( Read more on the spoons theory here and Transequality has good definitions if you are ever confused on that.)
I must have called and been redirected to ten different offices. They were either not taking new patients, didn't take my insurance, or redirected me back to my main doctors office! I have to much phone anxiety for that! And still no OBGYN appointment was made! It was irritating and a total was of spoons and time. I wished there was a way I could explain to someone all the information I have, what I need, and get exactly what I'm looking for in a redirect. Bahhh. I've never needed a shirt that says "I'd rather be knitting!" more in my life!
So then I tried a new stitch for my blanket square which Can Be Found Here and involved wrapping the yarn twice around the needle. It went poorly and ended in frogging.
So then I tried a new stitch for my blanket square which Can Be Found Here and involved wrapping the yarn twice around the needle. It went poorly and ended in frogging.
But...frogitaboutit. I'm still having a good day. I just decided to do simple knit stitch so I could read more Death By Cashmere and knit the square at the same time. Life is returning to normal and I'm happy for that.
hi Jack! found your blog through ravelry and wishing you the best in getting the obgyn sorted out (if you didn't already). I never thought id be likely to get cysts (they don't run in my family, I was on birth control for nearly two decades) but last November BAM I was in the ER with some insane pain and then I got admitted to the hospital for FOUR DAYS. four days! they stuck a drain in me. well follow up ultrasound in February: the fug ugly little stinker grew back. it was as big as my ovary and threatening torsion (but I felt fine!). so I had surgery in april, the thing was as big as my UTERUS so they had to take my whole ovary and fallopian tube and my doc is worried about endometriosis/losing my other ovary. I wanted to be like "scoop the whole system out I'm not using it anyways! " cause my husband and I are planning not to have kids (esp not our own kids, for various reasons). It was a super expensive surgery I've been going broke paying a ton for, and then the incision sites got infected and I have this awful scarring that may take years to fade. BUT I can say that my OBGYN is great- she's so nice and smart and put up with all the dumb jokes that I told (I Ovary-Reacted), and I only got her because I lucked out and she was the OBGYN on call when I got admitted to the hospital. I hope some of my good luck rubs off on you!
ReplyDeletemy good luck with getting an OBGYN that is. none of the "getting a giant cyst and losing an ovary and staying in the hospital" expensive adventure I've been on :)
Deletemy good luck with getting an OBGYN that is. none of the "getting a giant cyst and losing an ovary and staying in the hospital" expensive adventure I've been on :)
Deletehi Jack! found your blog through ravelry and wishing you the best in getting the obgyn sorted out (if you didn't already). I never thought id be likely to get cysts (they don't run in my family, I was on birth control for nearly two decades) but last November BAM I was in the ER with some insane pain and then I got admitted to the hospital for FOUR DAYS. four days! they stuck a drain in me. well follow up ultrasound in February: the fug ugly little stinker grew back. it was as big as my ovary and threatening torsion (but I felt fine!). so I had surgery in april, the thing was as big as my UTERUS so they had to take my whole ovary and fallopian tube and my doc is worried about endometriosis/losing my other ovary. I wanted to be like "scoop the whole system out I'm not using it anyways! " cause my husband and I are planning not to have kids (esp not our own kids, for various reasons). It was a super expensive surgery I've been going broke paying a ton for, and then the incision sites got infected and I have this awful scarring that may take years to fade. BUT I can say that my OBGYN is great- she's so nice and smart and put up with all the dumb jokes that I told (I Ovary-Reacted), and I only got her because I lucked out and she was the OBGYN on call when I got admitted to the hospital. I hope some of my good luck rubs off on you!
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