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Okay so here's the deal. I went to visit the Radiologist and found out I am pretty darn unique. The type of procedure I am having done is called an embolization. The uterine artery supplies blood to the uterus. When women have abnormal uterine bleeding or fibroid tumors they use this procedure to go in and cut off the blood supply to the uterus so that the fibroids cannot grow or so the uterus no longer bleeds. According to him, the little blood vessels in the cervix would maintain the supply of blood to keep that tissue healthy. Okay, so this doctor has performed this procedure hundreds of times for patients with fibroids or uncontrolled uterine bleeding after pregnancy. However, he has never performed it on someone who doesn't have a uterus. In fact, from what I gather from him, no one at that hospital has performed this procedure on someone with no uterus. Go figure. Yay me. So anyway, they think all of this bleeding is coming from the place where the uterus was connected to the cervix and that once the blood supply is cut off there will be no more bleeding. There are conditions. One being that the uterine artery has to still be intact. Dr. Z told this doctor that he did not clip the uterine artery. This doctor can only perform this procedure if that is true. He says that if for some reason they go in and this artery has been accidentally clipped that the procedure cannot be done. Makes sense, except that I feel just a wee bit uncomfortable that judging by this discussion with this doctor that Dr. Z isn't 100% positive that the artery isn't clipped. If it is they will be able to inject tiny plastic particles the size of grains of sand into the artery and clog it up. Then hopefully, no more bleeding. If the procedure doesn't go as planned, then I have to go back and have the cervix removed. The way this thing works is that they drug me up but don't put me under (cool because I get a good buzz and get to be aware of it for once bad because I would rather not be aware of anything) then they poke a hole in my groin/ leg area and snake a catheter through an artery to the area and then shoot me full of packing peanuts or whatever they are. Another possible problem would be my uncanny ability to bleed. And the most minor possibility of infection, which he simply said they would shoot me full of antibiotics in that case. Lovely huh?

In happier news...I got my hair cut. It rocks. I just hope I can make it look good myself. I will just have to practice. I heard from younger Mr. Monkey that father Monkey turned on the car after I got out of it to go into the hospital and flipped on the music to hear the Sex Pistols at ear bleeding volume. According to younger monkey, older monkey turned and said "Is this what your mom was listening to in the car today?"

Funny :)

Posted by gwendolyn on July 29, 2002 at 09:21 PM