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Things That I Found Do Not Decrease Pelvic Pain (Or how I learned that Sterile Pus is a thing)

You know when you have a really gnarly pimple, and it starts to hurt, and even though you know you shouldn't touch it, you can't help yourself because you know the moment it pops it's going to feel so much better? That was the feeling I had about my vagina bump. Especially after expelling pus...

What it is Like to be Perceived as a Difficult Patient (Or how I’ve never been happier to shoot green pus in my life)

It's been feeling really important lately to get back to the blog - I love other social media sites but there's just not enough space for me to meaningfully talk about a nuanced experience in 60 seconds or less. After my last appointment, where I found out I still had the large vaginal bump that...

1st Anniversary of Potentially Faulty Pelvic Floor (Or how I became a self-selected member of #PelvicMafia)

I had no idea this morning when I logged on to post a (late) entry about how I got interested in pelvic health in the first place that I officially started this blog exactly 1 year ago. In some ways that's frustrating because that means that I'm still searching for answers far longer than I...

The Importance of Therapeutic Alliance (or how I fired my surgeon and what I learned from that)

Recap: I had a really invasive surgery with a really abysmal recovery and bonus issues to boot and my doctor just told me that none of it had to do with my sketchy vagina bump that was now getting bigger. Internally, I was starting to panic. She continued, "I didn't appreciate at the time that...

The Art of Practicing Medicine (Or how I figured out I still had a sketchy vagina bump)

There is never a great time to have a surgery, or a subsequent catheterization, but as detailed here, it was a particularly crummy time for mine. I had a surgery, a 7 day check up, a 17 day checkup, a 30 day check up when the catheter finally came out, and on day 35 I...

What is a Urethral Diverticulum? (Or how babies and urine ideally come out of different holes)

I got into blogging to first and foremost put my bizarre collection of symptoms up on the internet with as many details as possible to help other people who might have a similar collection of symptoms. What I have gotten out of it so far is a way to process what is happening to me...

What To Wear to Hide a Catheter (or how I didn’t wear proper pants for 30 days)

There were lots of things I did before my surgery to try to process and limit my stress: I read a lot of WebMD articles (not helpful), looked at forums full of women who wore catheters, typically after hysterectomy, (really not helpful), started a blog (surprisingly helpful! 10/10 would do again.) But without a doubt,...

Office Communication Can Impact Patient Care (Or How Putting Your Feet In Stirrups Never Gets Less Weird)

I am now cath free, but still reflecting on my episode of care experience. Relevant background information: After months of persistent UTI symptoms and no answers, I had a great first meeting with the surgeon in January who gave me a provisional diagnosis, ordered an MRI, told me what the surgery would be if her provisional...