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Speaker 1 (00:00):
There's this Katie in Virginia Beach.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh, hi, Katie in Virginia Beach. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I'm doing great, excellent, excellent, Like I'm going to be awkward,
just so you know, what is the when did you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
When did you? Did you have an hysterectomy?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I did April tenths Oh recently.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh that was just not too long ago. Uh huh hey,
can I can? I can? I ask? Can I ask? Why?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah? I uh?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Longer story?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hai, tho strokes two years ago?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How old are you? How old are you?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm forty two?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
A stroke I did, yeah, and ever since then, I
haven't been able to get anything under control. I basically
kept having like two periods a month. Yeah, so they
had to evict the old years.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's funny. Good for you. You.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey, now let me ask you excuse me. The cough
isn't back. You know what that is? Cucumber in the
two I'm eating salad. The oh when when they went
in there and did whatever it is they do in there,
like everything comes out.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I guess you just told you the I know, I know,
but it's yeat?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Did they like they they obviously there's some stitching and
stuff that takes place, right, yeah, right, and then how long?
How long do they tell you after that to wait.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Twelve weeks for sex?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So today, today's my nine weeks nine weeks out today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh so you haven't even you haven't even gone back
to the Well.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Nope, no, I've I've had some complications and then to
back back in the hospital for a week like four
days after the historicoy. And so I guess because of
there twelve weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Was your complication with your vaginal cuff?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It was I had an absess that was on the
cuff and it was also touching my colon.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Katie, you just missed elliott fist pumping when he got
the cup question right now.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Cuff or cuff? He did the vaginal cuff.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I was thrown off because you were also yelling you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well said the what is the I've never heard of
a vaginal cuff before? But what is Tell everybody what
is the vaginal cuff?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
They basically, since they remove your uterus, there's all that
extra space they have to make a new little hole.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Would you agree with this? A vaginal cuff is like
a sewn pocket.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Inside of where your uterus, cervix and fallopian tubes once were.
It's the gateway between your bagoon and the rest of
your internal body. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, exactly exactly. That's
a good description. I read that, by the way, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I didn't. Wasn't just saying that'sothes No, they wrote vagina,
but I don't like that word.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So now when you get to when you get to
three more weeks from now, are you going to be nervous?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And what are they?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
What? Why?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I've read too many things about how awful it can be,
and they can depending on the size of it or
where it is, it can be different, like it can
be lower.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Than you're used to.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So I'll just I'll be in control of the situation
for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
All right, very good, very good. Well, congrats on the
history history. How are you doing now?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean not, I know you're not having two periods,
but like post stroke, Oh great.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm doing great on all accounts. And now I can
buy white pants.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So yeah, by the way, can we agree, can we
agree that we're gonna come out with yeat the ut shirts.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's my women's line. It's my women's line. All right,
very good, very good. Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh damn, well, I haven't gotten a major.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
We only have j USO shirts. Let's just say four letters.
They have stickers already that we could buy and put
on I don't know, our guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Cases and they say yea, they say yea. The wow.
Oh so that's a that's a thing. Line one. Hi
Elliot in the morning. Hi, It's hi Mackenzie. How are
you good? Did you yat your ute?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I did a year ago?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Hey? Why?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I had a giant fibrid on my meterus When it
was at its biggest, it was like seventeen or eighteen centimeters,
so like a like a cantalop.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh gosh, what I don't what is? What is? I
don't know what a fibroid is.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's it's not.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Like cancers or anything. It's just like a it's like
a growth almost. It doesn't. It just makes you uncomfortable.
And I'm not big. I'm like one hundred and twenty
something pounds, so it was just taking up a lot
of space in there.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Amen, you know that that's that's huge.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, I was like the size of it. It
started out as the first time I had a note
for found it was like a softball size, and then
I I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Getting the tape measure around. I got to see how
many cubic cares that is? You said centimeters? What is
that an inch? A system? That's pretty big.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Dude, Yeah, yeah, how they find it?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
So I had had difficulty peeing sometimes, but I didn't
think much of it. I'm not much of an alarmist,
so I just kind of ignored it. And then I
felt when I was laying down, I felt a lump
and I googled it and it said it was either
a sister of fibroid. So I still didn't panic. And
then I figured i'd go to the gynecologist and she
(06:22):
was like, oh, there's something really big in here, but
I can't tell what it is. You need to go
to a specialist. So I got an ultrasound and they
said it was the biggest one they've ever seen for
somebody my age.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So that's exciting corals.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I imagine it's like on pimple Popper when they go
in and they got that big, massive like poma and
they're like, how long you had this? And like, I
don't know, as long as I've had trouble.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Being Yeah, So I don't know how long i'd had it,
And when I think back, I'd had a couple of
really painful periods, like on the floor vomiting, like terrible,
and I'd always been really easy my whole life. So
I just didn't know why, and I didn't think much
of it. But now looking back, piecing it together, I'm like, oh,
it started a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Okay, hey, so the the I envy your use of
the back burner. I wish I could think that way
with every element of my lafe.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Now the So, so you had the hysterectomy, and did
they did they tell you the same thing that twelve weeks?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And so when I first I met with a couple
of doctors and they wanted to do an open hysterectomy,
which would be like like a C section where they cut.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You open.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Open to the public.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Now, oh, that would be cool too, And so I
was really trying to put that off because that would
be like a multi month recovery, right, And I met
with a different doctor who was amazing in Arlington, doctor Morphori,
and she could do it loposcopically, so and nobody else
said they could do that, and she had full confidence
(07:56):
in doing open tropically. So she was did four incisions,
so it's like a like a diamond kind of so
like belly button right above the pajingo, and then two
on the hip, two.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
On the hip, and then obviously the pajingo.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's one of my favorite lable games.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I love that on Prices right of the mountain climber,
he starts going right up to the pajingo. Hey, what
is the now? How long did she tell you? You
had to wait afterwards to think?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
It was about twelve she was.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
She was also very chill like when I asked her,
you know how long till I can run trag of
And she's kind of like, well, I mean, just whatever
you feel like doing. And I had read online all
of these like alarmist things, and I asked her, well,
I read online all the other things, and she's like, yeah,
I stand by what I said.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was like, okay, okay, And the how is you?
How's your cuff?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I think it's doing great.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I think so is this? When when you said you
were reading about all these things and stuff that comes up,
here's so here here's why I ask I've never heard
of this right, And I don't have any experience with
a hysterectomy, but they talk about a lot of people.
A lot of people end up getting a hyst directory
because they're just in chronic pain. Like it's just like
(09:13):
back pain, pelvic pain.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Like, well, that's why I got the fib word. I
could ignore. It wasn't that big of a deal. I
was getting like hip pain and don't like I started
driving with my left foot fiberers on my right side
and I couldn't sit for very long because it was
so painful on my hips. So it was more like
discomfort joint stuff because it was so full of crap.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, no, I believe that. I believe that.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So I'm reading about this woman, and again, I've never
heard of I'd never heard of any of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I've definitely never heard of a vaginal cuff.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So this woman, they tell her the same thing, like
you gotta you know, you gotta wait whatever it is,
eight weeks, ten weeks, twelve weeks, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The and so she.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Waits and she it is very Were you nervous the
first time you played pachinko?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
There after?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And I think I can't remember. I think we even
waited a little longer because I like, it felt like
this is a little PTM. I it felt like too tight,
like I didn't. I didn't really feel like it would
work like I was.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, it's a weird time to take up my daught.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Her explanation was going to be longer.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Sorry, she said, too much information.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So were you in fear of tearing your cuff a little?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
But I knew I had waited long enough, so I
figured I didn't. I guess I didn't think that was
a problem because I knew that the timeline was fine.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It just was really.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Uncomfortable, common issue tearing, tearing your cuff, and then what.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Are the complications that arise from that?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Got to go reach to go to the hospital. He said,
it's the gateway. Oh yeahah, it's like.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Real bad if you tear your cuff.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
It's real bad.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But common but common.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
No, no, no, So in this this woman, so this
woman that I was reading about, I'll just read you.
I had a hysterectomy and I felt like a new woman.
Then I tore my vagina twice. She ripped her cuff twice.
Does she not wait long enough the second time? No?
(11:29):
She also had something going on? What does she call it? Hey, ma'am,
you ever heard of this eeler dan Lowe's syndrome? Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I did know what that is?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What is that? We talk about it?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
It's like hyper mobility of joints. I have a couple
of friends who have it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wait wouldn't we talk about that? And asked that question?
Every time it comes up, I refuse to committed to memory. Wait,
what is that? Eloyer elor what is it? The connective tissues?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Eller is melt Daniels. It's like a hypermobility of joints.
And like I have a I have a student habit
and she like will like dislocate an elbow by doing nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh god, oh wow? So how do you get that
in your in your bagoon?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Well that I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
But you can tear it not just because you have eds.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well no, but this woman said, it's what you call it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And oh, people with eds it takes them longer to heal. Okay, right,
excuse me, it takes them longer to heal. So I
guess maybe she got after it a little too quick,
unlike you, who was like a procrastinator. She may have
gotten after it too quick and then boom, ripped my cuff.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Ouch.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
But if she takes longer to heel, she wouldn't have
known that it could have been twenty weeks for her shoe.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
No, yeah, no exactly. I mean it could have been
a year. Isn't that nuts? I've never heard of anybody
ripping their vagina, not like that? All right, very good,
very good. He was ripping and tearing. Have you ever
heard of that? I've never heard of the cuff at all. Now,
(13:04):
never heard of No, I've never heard of a vaginal cuff.
I hate that term. I hate that term. You hate
the term vaginal? Yeah, no, I'm streaked, Diane.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Okay, So you you're fine with cuff because it makes
you think of it word you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Liked, Yeah, cuff me in the sad.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
But when it comes to the entire process of a hysterectomy,
I will also, like you say, other than the final result,
I certainly don't know the details of the procedure.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
No, and I'll be very honest.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
What the reason I was very uncomfortable even even asking.
I assume, I not assume I associate if somebody, if
somebody's getting a hysterectomy, I immediately go cancer, and but
I don't. I don't want it to be that. I
don't want anybody to get cancer. I'd like us to
eradicate cancer.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
There's Rick I forgot he.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Slipped on what you know is a dirty ass floor?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Where am I going? Line two?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Elliott the morning? Yeah, Hi, who's as Hey?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
This is Melissa and my son would like to say
something before we start?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh yes, excellent, excellent enunciation.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Son.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
We're going to go around the front for a moment
if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
That was I let you know, Kevin, I'm on the
line with Elliott finally, so go ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Sorry, Hey, just out of curiosity, husband's school. Are we
going to have this conversation on speaker in front of
your kid? Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
He's freshman, his teeth for school?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well good?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
He's also getting ready to vomit? Hey, what is the
when did you? When did you have your When did
you yeat your ute?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
About a year and a half after my son? Okay,
after I had him?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I gotcha? Do I do?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I do?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I need to know why? Now?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I had fibroids like the last lady, I grew them
like they were my superpower. I had them removed three
times before I had to start IVS, and once I
got my hysterectomy, they also realized I had endometriosis.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh wow, oh wow.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
And the lady who talked about a cantalope, I grew
one of those lightly bigger in about ten months.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh my god, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I couldn't make my forty five minute drive into work
without having, uh, you know, an accident when I had
a period.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh I'm sorry the uh okay, Oh no, I didn't
know what's wrong to sit on right, No, no, listen,
that's gotta do. You know how bad?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I mean, obviously painful, but it's gotta suck. Yeah, driving
to work and the next thing you're like.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh, well, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I'll just tell everybody I got shot again, Like that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yep. Yeah, it sucked. I was in a lot of
pain and I was tired all the time. It was awful,
and my husband felt firsthand because I did. I had
multiple cybroids all the time, but I had one at
the entrance of my cervix, so when they tried to
(16:35):
do IVF they would consistently have to go up in
there run into it, so it would hurt, and then
they'd have to go around the fibroid to do any
of like, looks good implantation of the embryos.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Did you just look at your vagina?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She was probably the other kids.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Well, my son is brushing his teeth, and he showed
me his teeth.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
That's the old dendata or whatever they call it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Anyway, Yeah, Doctor Judy used to talk about that all
the time.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
To eat the penis scared the hell.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Anyway, So so so they they they you got.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The hysterectomy, did you yep? How was your vaginal cuff?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I had no issues. They also did a second surgery
while I was under because I had a huge hernia
and my intestines kept popping out, so I'd have to
lay back on the bed and push them back in.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Jesus Christ, lady.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Did you.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Out? He yelled at me all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Hey did you? But did they same thing? They told
you twelve weeks and they gave you a cuff.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Uh it was twelve weeks. I also, because of the hysterectomy,
couldn't or I'm sorry, the hernia repair. I couldn't lift
my son to carry him, so I always had to
have someone like with me, but I had my husband
can tell you no issues for sex, I think because
I had so many other issues that the recovery it
(18:14):
was long, but my body was finally happy that my
unurse was no longer there.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, no, they do.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They do say for people that have it and reading this,
like the relief that you get afterwards for whatever reason
is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yep, it was great.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I was so happy after years of pain, embarrassment. It
was great.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But you love it?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Did you did you have any like when you first
got after it? Did you fear that you would tear
your vagina?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
No? And my doctor he was shocked when I made
it to my third trimester. He finally said, I never
thought we would get here to this day. So even
carrying my son and having him was such a huge
that I think everything afterwards was just like we're just
excited that we have a kid and I'm healthy.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So yeah, that's great, amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Hey, is there like during those twelve weeks and maybe
not just for you, but like for like that that's
like heavy oral time, right?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah? All right, very good, very good man. He's talking
about rushing.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Fine, he's ready for school. Do you ever need any
satellite uh information, I'm your girl. I've done satellite operations
for forever. No weather, Oh oh oh.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was like, oh sweet, you know Howard so to walk?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Very good, very good? All right? You know what hold
on one saying hold on for ye my year.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You're a churn or just something deciding hold on one second,
hold on one second.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I misunderstood is that I know nothing about anything like that?
Is that fascinating?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
I've learned a lot amount of time.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I didn't know you got a cuff, and I didn't
know you could tear it.
There's this Katie in Virginia Beach.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
Oh, hi, Katie in Virginia Beach. How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:04):
I'm doing great, excellent, excellent, Like I'm going to be awkward,
just so you know, what is the when did you?
Speaker 2 (00:12):
When did you? Did you have an hysterectomy?
Speaker 1 (00:15):
I did April tenths Oh recently.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Oh that was just not too long ago. Uh huh hey,
can I can? I can? I ask? Can I ask? Why?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Yeah? I uh?
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Longer story?
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Hai, tho strokes two years ago?
Speaker 2 (00:33):
How old are you? How old are you?
Speaker 4 (00:35):
I'm forty two?
Speaker 1 (00:37):
A stroke I did, yeah, and ever since then, I
haven't been able to get anything under control. I basically
kept having like two periods a month. Yeah, so they
had to evict the old years.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
That's funny. Good for you. You.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Hey, now let me ask you excuse me. The cough
isn't back. You know what that is? Cucumber in the
two I'm eating salad. The oh when when they went
in there and did whatever it is they do in there,
like everything comes out.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
I guess you just told you the I know, I know,
but it's yeat?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Did they like they they obviously there's some stitching and
stuff that takes place, right, yeah, right, and then how long?
How long do they tell you after that to wait.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Twelve weeks for sex?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (01:41):
So today, today's my nine weeks nine weeks out today.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
Oh so you haven't even you haven't even gone back
to the Well.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Nope, no, I've I've had some complications and then to
back back in the hospital for a week like four
days after the historicoy. And so I guess because of
there twelve weeks.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Was your complication with your vaginal cuff?
Speaker 1 (02:06):
It was I had an absess that was on the
cuff and it was also touching my colon.
Speaker 6 (02:17):
Katie, you just missed elliott fist pumping when he got
the cup question right now.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Cuff or cuff? He did the vaginal cuff.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
I was thrown off because you were also yelling you.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Well said the what is the I've never heard of
a vaginal cuff before? But what is Tell everybody what
is the vaginal cuff?
Speaker 1 (02:42):
They basically, since they remove your uterus, there's all that
extra space they have to make a new little hole.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Would you agree with this? A vaginal cuff is like
a sewn pocket.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Inside of where your uterus, cervix and fallopian tubes once were.
It's the gateway between your bagoon and the rest of
your internal body. Yeah, yeah, right, yeah, exactly exactly. That's
a good description. I read that, by the way, I didn't.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
I didn't. Wasn't just saying that'sothes No, they wrote vagina,
but I don't like that word.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
So now when you get to when you get to
three more weeks from now, are you going to be nervous?
Speaker 4 (03:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And what are they?
Speaker 4 (03:34):
What?
Speaker 2 (03:35):
What? Why?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I've read too many things about how awful it can be,
and they can depending on the size of it or
where it is, it can be different, like it can
be lower.
Speaker 4 (03:47):
Than you're used to.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
So I'll just I'll be in control of the situation
for sure.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
All right, very good, very good. Well, congrats on the
history history. How are you doing now?
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I mean not, I know you're not having two periods,
but like post stroke, Oh great.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
I'm doing great on all accounts. And now I can
buy white pants.
Speaker 3 (04:08):
So yeah, by the way, can we agree, can we
agree that we're gonna come out with yeat the ut shirts.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
It's my women's line. It's my women's line. All right,
very good, very good. Thank you, ma'am, thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Oh damn, well, I haven't gotten a major.
Speaker 6 (04:31):
We only have j USO shirts. Let's just say four letters.
They have stickers already that we could buy and put
on I don't know, our guitar.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Cases and they say yea, they say yea. The wow.
Oh so that's a that's a thing. Line one. Hi
Elliot in the morning. Hi, It's hi Mackenzie. How are
you good? Did you yat your ute?
Speaker 4 (05:00):
I did a year ago?
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Hey? Why?
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I had a giant fibrid on my meterus When it
was at its biggest, it was like seventeen or eighteen centimeters,
so like a like a cantalop.
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Oh gosh, what I don't what is? What is? I
don't know what a fibroid is.
Speaker 1 (05:16):
It's it's not.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Like cancers or anything. It's just like a it's like
a growth almost. It doesn't. It just makes you uncomfortable.
And I'm not big. I'm like one hundred and twenty
something pounds, so it was just taking up a lot
of space in there.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Amen, you know that that's that's huge.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, yeah, I was like the size of it. It
started out as the first time I had a note
for found it was like a softball size, and then
I I'm.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
Getting the tape measure around. I got to see how
many cubic cares that is? You said centimeters? What is
that an inch? A system? That's pretty big.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Dude, Yeah, yeah, how they find it?
Speaker 5 (06:00):
So I had had difficulty peeing sometimes, but I didn't
think much of it. I'm not much of an alarmist,
so I just kind of ignored it. And then I
felt when I was laying down, I felt a lump
and I googled it and it said it was either
a sister of fibroid. So I still didn't panic. And
then I figured i'd go to the gynecologist and she
(06:22):
was like, oh, there's something really big in here, but
I can't tell what it is. You need to go
to a specialist. So I got an ultrasound and they
said it was the biggest one they've ever seen for
somebody my age.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
So that's exciting corals.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
I imagine it's like on pimple Popper when they go
in and they got that big, massive like poma and
they're like, how long you had this? And like, I
don't know, as long as I've had trouble.
Speaker 5 (06:45):
Being Yeah, So I don't know how long i'd had it,
And when I think back, I'd had a couple of
really painful periods, like on the floor vomiting, like terrible,
and I'd always been really easy my whole life. So
I just didn't know why, and I didn't think much
of it. But now looking back, piecing it together, I'm like, oh,
it started a couple of years ago.
Speaker 6 (07:04):
Okay, hey, so the the I envy your use of
the back burner. I wish I could think that way
with every element of my lafe.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Now the So, so you had the hysterectomy, and did
they did they tell you the same thing that twelve weeks?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
And so when I first I met with a couple
of doctors and they wanted to do an open hysterectomy,
which would be like like a C section where they cut.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
You open.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
Open to the public.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
Now, oh, that would be cool too, And so I
was really trying to put that off because that would
be like a multi month recovery, right, And I met
with a different doctor who was amazing in Arlington, doctor Morphori,
and she could do it loposcopically, so and nobody else
said they could do that, and she had full confidence
(07:56):
in doing open tropically. So she was did four incisions,
so it's like a like a diamond kind of so
like belly button right above the pajingo, and then two
on the hip, two.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
On the hip, and then obviously the pajingo.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's one of my favorite lable games.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
I love that on Prices right of the mountain climber,
he starts going right up to the pajingo. Hey, what
is the now? How long did she tell you? You
had to wait afterwards to think?
Speaker 4 (08:28):
It was about twelve she was.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
She was also very chill like when I asked her,
you know how long till I can run trag of
And she's kind of like, well, I mean, just whatever
you feel like doing. And I had read online all
of these like alarmist things, and I asked her, well,
I read online all the other things, and she's like, yeah,
I stand by what I said.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
I was like, okay, okay, And the how is you?
How's your cuff?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
I think it's doing great.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
I think so is this? When when you said you
were reading about all these things and stuff that comes up,
here's so here here's why I ask I've never heard
of this right, And I don't have any experience with
a hysterectomy, but they talk about a lot of people.
A lot of people end up getting a hyst directory
because they're just in chronic pain. Like it's just like
(09:13):
back pain, pelvic pain.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Like, well, that's why I got the fib word. I
could ignore. It wasn't that big of a deal. I
was getting like hip pain and don't like I started
driving with my left foot fiberers on my right side
and I couldn't sit for very long because it was
so painful on my hips. So it was more like
discomfort joint stuff because it was so full of crap.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Yeah, no, I believe that. I believe that.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
So I'm reading about this woman, and again, I've never
heard of I'd never heard of any of this stuff.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
I've definitely never heard of a vaginal cuff.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
So this woman, they tell her the same thing, like
you gotta you know, you gotta wait whatever it is,
eight weeks, ten weeks, twelve weeks, whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
The and so she.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Waits and she it is very Were you nervous the
first time you played pachinko?
Speaker 2 (10:03):
There after?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (10:05):
And I think I can't remember. I think we even
waited a little longer because I like, it felt like
this is a little PTM. I it felt like too tight,
like I didn't. I didn't really feel like it would
work like I was.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Yeah, it's a weird time to take up my daught.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Her explanation was going to be longer.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Sorry, she said, too much information.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
So were you in fear of tearing your cuff a little?
Speaker 5 (10:37):
But I knew I had waited long enough, so I
figured I didn't. I guess I didn't think that was
a problem because I knew that the timeline was fine.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
It just was really.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
Uncomfortable, common issue tearing, tearing your cuff, and then what.
Speaker 6 (10:55):
Are the complications that arise from that?
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Got to go reach to go to the hospital. He said,
it's the gateway. Oh yeahah, it's like.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Real bad if you tear your cuff.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
It's real bad.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
But common but common.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
No, no, no, So in this this woman, so this
woman that I was reading about, I'll just read you.
I had a hysterectomy and I felt like a new woman.
Then I tore my vagina twice. She ripped her cuff twice.
Does she not wait long enough the second time? No?
(11:29):
She also had something going on? What does she call it? Hey, ma'am,
you ever heard of this eeler dan Lowe's syndrome? Oh?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
I did know what that is?
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What is that? We talk about it?
Speaker 5 (11:40):
It's like hyper mobility of joints. I have a couple
of friends who have it.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Wait wouldn't we talk about that? And asked that question?
Every time it comes up, I refuse to committed to memory. Wait,
what is that? Eloyer elor what is it? The connective tissues?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
Eller is melt Daniels. It's like a hypermobility of joints.
And like I have a I have a student habit
and she like will like dislocate an elbow by doing nothing.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Oh god, oh wow? So how do you get that
in your in your bagoon?
Speaker 5 (12:08):
Well that I don't know.
Speaker 6 (12:11):
But you can tear it not just because you have eds.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Well no, but this woman said, it's what you call it.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
And oh, people with eds it takes them longer to heal. Okay, right,
excuse me, it takes them longer to heal. So I
guess maybe she got after it a little too quick,
unlike you, who was like a procrastinator. She may have
gotten after it too quick and then boom, ripped my cuff.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
Ouch.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
But if she takes longer to heel, she wouldn't have
known that it could have been twenty weeks for her shoe.
Speaker 2 (12:42):
No, yeah, no exactly. I mean it could have been
a year. Isn't that nuts? I've never heard of anybody
ripping their vagina, not like that? All right, very good,
very good. He was ripping and tearing. Have you ever
heard of that? I've never heard of the cuff at all. Now,
(13:04):
never heard of No, I've never heard of a vaginal cuff.
I hate that term. I hate that term. You hate
the term vaginal? Yeah, no, I'm streaked, Diane.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
Okay, So you you're fine with cuff because it makes
you think of it word you.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Liked, Yeah, cuff me in the sad.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
But when it comes to the entire process of a hysterectomy,
I will also, like you say, other than the final result,
I certainly don't know the details of the procedure.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
No, and I'll be very honest.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
What the reason I was very uncomfortable even even asking.
I assume, I not assume I associate if somebody, if
somebody's getting a hysterectomy, I immediately go cancer, and but
I don't. I don't want it to be that. I
don't want anybody to get cancer. I'd like us to
eradicate cancer.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Not me.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
There's Rick I forgot he.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
Slipped on what you know is a dirty ass floor?
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Where am I going? Line two?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Elliott the morning? Yeah, Hi, who's as Hey?
Speaker 4 (14:20):
This is Melissa and my son would like to say
something before we start?
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Oh yes, excellent, excellent enunciation.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Son.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
We're going to go around the front for a moment
if you don't mind.
Speaker 4 (14:33):
That was I let you know, Kevin, I'm on the
line with Elliott finally, so go ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Sorry, Hey, just out of curiosity, husband's school. Are we
going to have this conversation on speaker in front of
your kid? Uh?
Speaker 4 (14:48):
He's freshman, his teeth for school?
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Well good?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
He's also getting ready to vomit? Hey, what is the
when did you? When did you have your When did
you yeat your ute?
Speaker 4 (15:00):
About a year and a half after my son? Okay,
after I had him?
Speaker 2 (15:05):
I gotcha? Do I do?
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I do?
Speaker 2 (15:07):
I need to know why? Now?
Speaker 4 (15:10):
I had fibroids like the last lady, I grew them
like they were my superpower. I had them removed three
times before I had to start IVS, and once I
got my hysterectomy, they also realized I had endometriosis.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Oh wow, oh wow.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
And the lady who talked about a cantalope, I grew
one of those lightly bigger in about ten months.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Oh my god, dude. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I couldn't make my forty five minute drive into work
without having, uh, you know, an accident when I had
a period.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Oh I'm sorry the uh okay, Oh no, I didn't
know what's wrong to sit on right, No, no, listen,
that's gotta do. You know how bad?
Speaker 3 (16:05):
I mean, obviously painful, but it's gotta suck. Yeah, driving
to work and the next thing you're like.
Speaker 2 (16:10):
Oh, well, there we go.
Speaker 3 (16:11):
I'll just tell everybody I got shot again, Like that's horrible.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Yep. Yeah, it sucked. I was in a lot of
pain and I was tired all the time. It was awful,
and my husband felt firsthand because I did. I had
multiple cybroids all the time, but I had one at
the entrance of my cervix, so when they tried to
(16:35):
do IVF they would consistently have to go up in
there run into it, so it would hurt, and then
they'd have to go around the fibroid to do any
of like, looks good implantation of the embryos.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Did you just look at your vagina?
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Now?
Speaker 2 (16:52):
She was probably the other kids.
Speaker 4 (16:53):
Well, my son is brushing his teeth, and he showed
me his teeth.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
That's the old dendata or whatever they call it.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Anyway, Yeah, Doctor Judy used to talk about that all
the time.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
To eat the penis scared the hell.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Anyway, So so so they they they you got.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The hysterectomy, did you yep? How was your vaginal cuff?
Speaker 4 (17:17):
I had no issues. They also did a second surgery
while I was under because I had a huge hernia
and my intestines kept popping out, so I'd have to
lay back on the bed and push them back in.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Jesus Christ, lady.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
Did you.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Out? He yelled at me all the time.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Hey did you? But did they same thing? They told
you twelve weeks and they gave you a cuff.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Uh it was twelve weeks. I also, because of the hysterectomy,
couldn't or I'm sorry, the hernia repair. I couldn't lift
my son to carry him, so I always had to
have someone like with me, but I had my husband
can tell you no issues for sex, I think because
I had so many other issues that the recovery it
(18:14):
was long, but my body was finally happy that my
unurse was no longer there.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, no, they do.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
They do say for people that have it and reading this,
like the relief that you get afterwards for whatever reason
is fantastic.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yep, it was great.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I was so happy after years of pain, embarrassment. It
was great.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
But you love it?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Did you did you have any like when you first
got after it? Did you fear that you would tear
your vagina?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
No?
Speaker 4 (18:44):
No? And my doctor he was shocked when I made
it to my third trimester. He finally said, I never
thought we would get here to this day. So even
carrying my son and having him was such a huge
that I think everything afterwards was just like we're just
excited that we have a kid and I'm healthy.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
So yeah, that's great, amazing.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Hey, is there like during those twelve weeks and maybe
not just for you, but like for like that that's
like heavy oral time, right?
Speaker 2 (19:17):
Yeah? All right, very good, very good man. He's talking
about rushing.
Speaker 4 (19:25):
Fine, he's ready for school. Do you ever need any
satellite uh information, I'm your girl. I've done satellite operations
for forever. No weather, Oh oh oh.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I was like, oh sweet, you know Howard so to walk?
Speaker 3 (19:46):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Very good, very good? All right? You know what hold
on one saying hold on for ye my year.
Speaker 3 (19:50):
You're a churn or just something deciding hold on one second,
hold on one second.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I misunderstood is that I know nothing about anything like that?
Is that fascinating?
Speaker 6 (20:05):
I've learned a lot amount of time.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
I didn't know you got a cuff, and I didn't
know you could tear it.
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