So, for ULMS, he's being surprisingly polite - he has yet to start to redecorate any other major organ, and it looks like he hasn't grown much. Unfortunately, having him hang around in the uterus is causing my cervix to start overgrowing again, which means it's only a matter of time until I recreate the whole Carrie paint-the-walls-red scenario that started this whole thing. Plus, it may help my whole "there's a rock leaning against my bladder" continence issue...
So, my doctor wants me to undergo vaginal surgery to remove the overgrowth, which I would be down with except:
a) The whole sedation thing. Between the cancer, the diabetes, the apnea, the arthritis, the acne (ok, maybe not the acne), but as a whole, my body should have fallen apart 20 years back. I'm nervous about not waking up, frankly.
b) I'm two years in now, and the normal survival rate for ULMS is 50% at 2 years (that's with a total hysterectomy as soon as you're diagnosed. The 5 year survival rate is 20%.) As my doctor says, I'm atypical. I'm nervous about poking Hank with a stick - it might wake him up, and I am enjoying the respite I've been given.
So... I'm going to go in and discuss it with her, see what she says. Well, and go through the pre-surgical thing - I'm pretty sure they're going to tell me to go away and come back when I lose a couple of hundred pounds. I'm ok with that. But we'll see.
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