Inside Job Ten days after the surgery, six days after returning home from the hospital, and one day after the zipper of staples spanning my abdomen from the pelvis to above and around the belly button is removed, the incision bursts open. Rolling off my bed, one hand protecting my tender, zipper-free abdomen, I notice [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hysterectomy’
Inside Job
Posted in Inside Job, tagged burst abdominal incision, cancer and comedy, cancer and humor, hysterectomy, ovarian cancer on June 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Pee in a Cup
Posted in Pee in a Cup, tagged cancer and comedy, cancer and humor, hysterectomy, ovarian cancer, pregnancy test on April 12, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Pee in a Cup When we are called in to prep for the surgery, I am almost relieved. Finally we will get to the reason I am here. In the curtained prep area, I get naked into a backless blue hospital gown and sit on the creaky rolling medical bed, the bed that will deliver [...]
Question
Posted in Question, tagged cancer and comedy, cancer and humor, gay parenting, hysterectomy, lesbian parenting, not having children, ovarian cancer, planning children on March 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Question The surgeon visits my partner and me the morning after the surgery. “How you doin’?” “I just got spayed,” I reply through a morphine haze. He thinks it’s the drugs talking. I squeeze Ramona’s hand. I feel the finality of the missing uterus, fallopian tubes, cervix, ovaries, eggs. All the female parts we learn [...]
