Surgery drugs are wearing off so I can give a full update - but forgive any residual typos 😋

Shortest summary, everything went well and I'm looking forward to recovering and resetting my TTC journey. 🙏

I talked to my Dr. briefly after the surgery and will have a consult with him on the 26th to review lab results on all the tissue they ran, but what he told me so far was 1) I did have a polyp in my uterus that they removed, 2) I also has some remaining tissue from my pregnancy in my uterus, also removed, and 3) I had/have stage 2 (borderline 3) endometriosis. Apparently my left ovary had a lot of lesions and was "stuck" in some way? I was a little groggy so I didn't really process that part but he thinks I might not have been ovulating on that side due to the lesions. He felt everything went really well and confirmed his suspicions.

The left ovary story also confirms that I thought I wasn't ovulating every month (from previous tracking) so that's interesting. But he also said given all the things he saw and the inflammation, it would have been hard for the fetus to thrive so he's not surprised I miscarried. 😔

All in all, good, but a bit scary news. I had a feeling I had endo but wanted to be wrong because now it's something to deal with for the rest of my life (or at least until menopause). Luckily there are lots of ways to help with pain and treatment of it, and it doesn't mean I can't have children. I got emotional last night (probably amped up by pain meds) because I've had painful periods (subsided when on OC, NuvaRing or Mirena) and pain during sex for years and either never mentioned it to my doctors, or when I did, they never considered Endo. So all of that is a tough pill to swallow. But lesson learned. Don't ignore pain! ☝️

I have three incisions in my abdomen, 1 in my navel and two on my left side about 1 inch across. They used dermabond which is better than stitches / staples. They used it on my uncle when he had a heart transplant and he hardly has any scarring. Right now I just have belly pain and am trying so hard not to use my abs 😥 Taking it easy the next few days but trying to figure out weekend plans. I have a friend's baby shower 👶🚿on Saturday, Father's day and a show on Sunday. I want to keep the plans, but I also don't want to be in a state where you can tell I'm in pain / am walking slower / you can tell I had surgery. I still haven't really told anyone except you all and my mom. But I'm also starting to think that maybe I should?

Anyway, that's all the updates I can think of for part 1 of my novel. lol. Thanks for all the love and support Glowies! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️