Well, here I go. I visited my doctor on Dec 2/03 and told him I was ready for my surgery...and boom, 5 weeks later it is already happening! So many thoughts are filling my head and it's only been 5 hours since I got word when my surgery will be???
Some explaination as how I got to the decision to have surgery...
My history:
1998 (26 years old) precancer cells on cervix - cone biopsy done by laser
1998 problems with cervix closing over
1998 surgery to dilate cervix to preserve chance for having children
1999 AGAIN surgery to dilate my cervix that closed again
2000 pregnant
2001 premature birth of 1st son Noah (32 weeks natural birth - now he is a healty, happy 2 1/2 year old)
2002 (30 yrs old) clinic procedure to dilate cervix because is closed again
2002 pregnant, then miscarried
2003 pregnant
June 2003 premature birth of 2nd son Joshua(24 weeks natural birth - passed away 17 days after birth)
Sept 2003 advised by doctor that I can not carry any more pregnancies to term - no more children and he advised TAH but I am not ready
Nov 2003 pregnancy scare
Dec 2003 (31 years old) told doctor I am ready for TAH
Jan 20/04 pre-op appt
Jan 22/04 surgery
My head is spinning. My doctor has rushed my TAH (usually there is a waiting list to be put on). I am sad because this formalizes no more children. I am scared because I don't know how my 2 1/2 year old will handle me being "out of commission".
Any advise for the anxioty one feels when everything moves so fast?
One more question: is TAH recover similar to a C-Section?