My Hysterectomy Gave Me a Release I Never Expected
<p>Till age 45 I still felt a vacuum inside and a longing for a child. I was made to feel less than compared to mothers.</p>
<p>It’s something I could tell no one. Most of my friends and family had kids and I felt alienated from them.</p>
<p>Even at this late age, it was still a possibility technically.</p>
<p>So when I was diagnosed with womb cancer not long after turning 45 and had to have an emergency hysterectomy, without even being allowed to give any thought to the total loss of fertility, it was traumatic.</p>
<p>I wasn’t given any options like a woman in her thirties would have. And I never would have imagined it would give me a release in the years after. I never thought I would get to that point.</p>
<p>Post radical hysterectomy (my omentum and 21 lymph nodes were also removed), it was excruciating to have to visit my gynaecologist, surrounded by happy, expectant mothers and those who just had their babies. Beautiful glowing mums and adorable infants filled the waiting area.</p>
<p>I was the only one there, sans womb. I have been made to feel (erroneously and cruelly by media & society) like an incomplete, defective woman and in that waiting room even more so.</p>
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