Shortly after my mother called, my doctor called. He is now suggesting we skip the surgery and I go see a Radiologist he has been talking to about me. It seems they can perform a minimal invasive procedure by going in with some sort of tool similar to what they use when they go into someone's heart and cut off the blood supply to the blood vessels in the area that is causing the problems. I asked him if that was going to make my cervix just dead tissue and he said that it wouldn't, that it would just stop me from having anymore bleeding at all without taking the cervix out. He feels that this might actually be a better way to deal with this than just removing the cervix. I agreed to meet with the Radiologist and discuss it. He had suggested this previously when we decided to remove the cervix as a possible option, but at that time I dismissed it with the opinion that it may not work and then I would just keep having problems so I would just rather take it all out and be done with it. Maybe having this arthritis thing in my jaw is fate's way of stopping me from doing that. I don't know. I hope whatever it is, it works.

Posted by gwendolyn on July 26, 2002 at 02:44 PM