Hasta la vista, baby

It looks like I have been shot by a robot 5 times. 

I’ve been well and truly stitched up!

When I told Tommy that I was off to the Theatre, he asked what I was going to see. Womb with a View of course! Or perhaps Panic Womb, the most apt would be Escape Womb!

Yesterday I received so many well wishes, but this message below in black I have to share with you…

If I had not been invited for my cervical screening, previously called the ‘smear test’ I would not have discovered this Endometrial Cancer. When I had my radiotherapy 9 years ago it put me into false menopause. Now the NHS will test anyone with post menopausal bleeding within 2 weeks. My cervical screening was 2 months ago to the day… now I am all done and dusted. 

They will do a biopsy on the bits removed, just to make sure that the cancer has not spread beyond the womb muscle walls, but this is usually a very slow developing, self contained cancer, so should be all gone now. 

Do you know what really makes me smile?

Facial muscles

Going to the Theatre

The NHS has been so wonderful. After a MRI scan showed Cancer of the womb  (Cancer of the uterus / Endoscopic Cancer) I was quickly booked in for a full robotic hysterectomy. On Thursday 9th September 2012, I went to Lister Hospital, Stevenage. I had done the COVID test. As mine was the biggest operation, I was booked in first. Walked down the the theatre where I met the anaesthetist, lay down in the vast white room under the large lights. Weird to think that my consultant who would be carrying out the operation would be nowhere near me but on a computer in the corner of the room!

 Woke up some time later and was wheeled to a ward of four ladies. I slept on an off for about 12 hours. Tommy did come to visit me, but I was very sleepy and a bit out of it. 

 The doctor came round the next day and said that it had all been a success and that I could go home, I could not believe how quickly I had been discharged. I have 5 wounds on my stomach, and just taking paracetamol, no morphine needed.