Thursday, June 14, 2007

Essure? Ah... Sure!

So, perhaps a few of you (from the six people who read my blog) already know I recently had a procedure. I have had some problems of the woman variety for about a year, and it turns out that I had twin polyps in my uterus (sorry, ladies, but I didn't get a copy of the ultrasound picture for that one). Naturally, my doctor wanted to remove them during a hysteroscopy. My response? "While you're in there, do you think...?" And so, he turned me on to the new alternative to tying/burning/squishing tubes. I need not explain, as the lovely diagram to the right does it for me. I will tell you that I had general anesthesia, and I felt FINE the next day. Just like a nasty period. Vicatin and Ibuprofen are my friends. And now micro-inserts are too. Some of you may be wondering (or not, if I have spoken to you recently) how I feel about never reproducing again. The idea of it may sound sad, but I am relieved. I spent my young adult life preventing pregnancy. Then there was a brief period of time when I took pregnancy tests and hoped they were positive (Mom, I promise I have only peed on three sticks - one for Chase and two for Hayden; I couldn't get his test results for 48 hours). But I feel accomplished knowing that my child-conceiving days are finished. Not to brag, but I did expunge two amazing boys from my uterus. In conclusion, I whole-heartedly recommend this procedure to those of you ready to say no to birth control pills and contractions. The rest of you may make babies with my blessing.

6 comments:

Andrew said...

Good for you. Now you can bow-chick-a-wah-wow all you want! Last week Amy wanted me to have the same procedure...

on my mouth.

Abigail said...

Brag on Monaka- Three cheers for your boys AND your uterus!

Amy G. said...

Um. Glad you're feeling better? *Now I must block out your post and continue to focus on my very full and endlessly (it seems) growing uterus.* Andrew, don't lie!

Andrew said...

I just put 2 and 2 together...

Your last post said; Yay! School's out for summer! and then you immediately followed that up with a post saying you had a procedure that would prevent you from having more kids. I don't know how that bodes well for those of us with kids on the way?!

Mom said...

It's all right, I can live without having a granddaughter. sob

toddderrick said...

HOLY! Congrats(!)(?) :o)