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A foolish creature. A screaming goose. A menacing spoonbill. A cheeky raccoon.
Abortion is a medical procedure. It is a life saver.

Also fuck it. You shouldn’t need this story to be convincing. You should just respect people who can get pregnant. And apologies for saying women earlier, not just women can get pregnant.
December 10, 2023 at 12:46 AM
Now imagine I went through all this because some fucks thinks their sky daddy says women should have no autonomy and that all we are are breeders and who gives a fuck about us. No coverage for any of these costs because fuck women right.
December 10, 2023 at 12:44 AM
I have a kid with suspected level one autism. She has had the worst fucking week. Last night she was terrified I was not going to be home when she woke up in the morning. She has had daily meltdowns because her entire routine was gone.
December 10, 2023 at 12:40 AM
My body basically hated the stents.

It’s been a day and a half and things still hurt. I have some nerve damage which is an expected outcome. I have medication for that. I have medicine to stop acid because I have gastritis.
December 10, 2023 at 12:37 AM
And then I’m awake and my brain can only remember that it was in agony.

That’s the weird thing for me with being sedated. I wake up in the same place. In the same conversation. In the same pain.
December 10, 2023 at 12:35 AM
My anaesthetist in his very all deep voice tells me he is going to just knock me out now. My surgeon is speaking comfortingly. The nurses are quickly calmly but so so so quickly setting me up to go under. Someone is very kindly stroking my forehead. And I am out.
December 10, 2023 at 12:34 AM
Ok. Got my meds. Back to it.
December 10, 2023 at 12:31 AM
Have you ever been in a surgery theatre and tried to not scream in pain but fail so badly every medical professional there panics on your behalf? Because that pain reaction is the worst. It’s beyond a ten.
December 10, 2023 at 12:25 AM
Not all good.

At first they think I must have pancreatitis because of the severe crippling pain.

Nope. Enzymes are good. In fact great. All my stats are fucking sweet.

It’s the stents. My body cannot handle the stents.
December 10, 2023 at 12:23 AM
First available date is three days before my birthday. So. Tuesday just gone.

All good tho. They will do the ERCP with sphincterotomy, pop in two stents to try avoid more pancreatitis and I should be good to go home until the evening of my birthday to get the stents taken back out.
December 10, 2023 at 12:22 AM
So my options are: increased attacks for no reason and increasing chances every time that there is gunna be pancreatic cancer or that surgery we wanted to avoid.

So. Surgery it is.
December 10, 2023 at 12:20 AM
So the vague spectre of pancreatic cancer I’ve been living with since 2015 with the whole hospital fall stone in pancreas causing severe pancreatitis which became less vague with SoO diagnosis has become a very clear and real threat.
December 10, 2023 at 12:19 AM
Another endoscope. Bad news. The worst news. There is a build up of sludge at the Sphincter of Oddi.

Heads up. This is one of the spinster close to the pancreas. If this sludge goes and gets into the pancreas the pancreas can do shit like start throwing cancer around.
December 10, 2023 at 12:14 AM
Fast forward to this year. I have an attack so bad I thought I was having a heart attack.

This happens again.

There is nothing I can pinpoint as having triggered these.

Back to my gp and to the specialist.
December 10, 2023 at 12:13 AM
Ok. Got time while they do the scripts.

So, come up with a treatment plan. Which is basically avoid a lot of foods and drinks, take serious painkillers to kick me out when they doesn’t work.

This is not an ideal plan. The alternative is surgery my specialist and I would like to avoid.
December 10, 2023 at 12:11 AM
Gotta get meds from hospital.
December 10, 2023 at 12:06 AM
I’m lucky. I have a good job so I can have health insurance. My husband is a chef so he can make me food so I can eat healthy. Around 2010, after some stupidly expensive tests, the last contender remains standing. Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction.
December 10, 2023 at 12:06 AM
So this is 2015 now. Since then I have played a game of “can I or can’t I” with food and drink. An expensive time of seeing specialist after fucking specialist to knock out potential issues.
December 10, 2023 at 12:04 AM
I end up back in hospital for a week on morphine. Away from my tiny baby new baby. Terrified. Finally get surgery and get to go home.
December 10, 2023 at 12:00 AM
But finally I have a healthy baby girl and for five weeks I manage to avoid hospital.

Until I have my eldest jump on me happily and dislodge multiple gall stones which go right to the pancreas.

This is literally the worst pain
December 9, 2023 at 11:59 PM
My midwife has a fight with the hospital and berates them into agreeing to induce the pregnancy. Two weeks early. Two weeks I’m basically living in the hospital. Feeling like the worst neglectful mother to my kiddo. Feeling like this baby is going to die and take me along with.
December 9, 2023 at 11:58 PM
Third trimester and I am at the hospital weekly, then twice weekly, then every second day, then I’m staying overnight and they finally get the answers.

Massive fuck off gall stones.
December 9, 2023 at 11:56 PM
Tests and drugs and back home with no conclusive answer.

This continues, getting worse and worse. I’m in the hospital at least once a fortnight for the entire second trimester on an increasing basis.
December 9, 2023 at 11:54 PM
From the get go, this pregnancy was rough. I was very sick and very exhausted and in pain that I had never had with the first pregnancy. Around the end of the first trimester, I had a night where I vomited for hours and hours. When I stopped vomiting constantly, we went to the hospital.
December 9, 2023 at 11:52 PM
None the less, we had planned for having two kids, just not this soon. So we figured we would make this work. So. Keep in mind. This is the result of a wanted pregnancy. You need to think of what if the rest of this was NOT wanted.
December 9, 2023 at 11:50 PM