After the operation (Three days and two nights), I was on leave for eight weeks. Eight weeks of continuous recovery, noticing the improvement from morning to night, from night to morning. It seemed incredible to me that the […]
11. The click
When I think about how this recovery process has been, I feel like I started recovering when I decided to go ahead with the operation. As if by taking that decision something clicked, and my […]
8. Three days two nights
Including the operation, I was in hospital for three days and two nights. The first night was the hardest of them all, partly because of the pain in the wounds and partly because I couldn’t rest due to the […]
6. Opening and closing my eyes
I left the cubicle with the nurse, and we passed through various corridors before arriving at the operating theatre. Grey and white in colour, they reminded me of the cold feeling of a polished concrete wall. For a moment I seemed to be living […]
5. Pre-operation
I had taken the day before the operation off work, and left everything that I needed prepared. I had dedicated time for myself, to tidy myself up and therefore feel more comfortable after the operation. […]
3. Packing
Every journey needs a bag. Sometimes it can be invisible and even so have an immeasurable weight. My journey to reconnection also has luggage. It has more than one bag. Or one alone in which things will come and go, and […]
2. Scared to bleed
Today I feel tired. Work has been intense, trying to finalise pending things and leave my replacement ready, so that everything goes well while I am on leave. The operation (Opening and […]
1. A journey to reconnect
I feel the need to share this journey of self-discovery that I have started due to facing an upcoming operation to remove some fibroids in my uterus. For a long time, I avoided facing this operation. I believed there wasn’t a good-enough reason (The click), until […]