I wore my anal cancer Badass shirt to visit the hospital today. It did give a couple nurses a chuckle in the day surgery room.
Funny sidebar. I have been finding it truely amazing how many people don't know their body parts. Today I was sitting beside a gentleman waiting for his procedure to have a part of his prostate cut out because it's blocking his bladder. He asked what I was doing. I said biopsy on my cervix. His wife read my shirt and told him what it said. He doesn't know what the anus is but it sounds painful to him. For real. He's older than me and doesn't know what an anus is!
Anyways.
I got in the room and the Dr doing the colposcopy is the one that did all my cervical cancer followup years ago. So that was a fun and greatly appreciated surprise.
I told her about the last gyno visit, tipped uterus, serious stenosis, need for a sedation exam. It took a while. She had to use extra supplies to hold things in place. Then an emergency room disposable speculum because it has a light built into it. The nurse was having to source the extra supplies.
But....we got it done.
At one point I did ask if there were some acrobatic moves I could do to help the situation. We all got a laugh or two.
It was uncomfortable but not painful. I'm to expect bleeding and cramping. All good so far.
She will email the results in a month or so. If clear, she will see me in a year for a repeat colposcopy and if not clear she will see me for treatment. When I left she had fingers crossed, telling me she really hopes it's clear. I said "me too! I'm a bit busy already with the anal cancer". Then we both grimaced at each other.
Then we picked up the boys, grabbed a couple things at Walmart and got icecream at the Farmers Market. Because I earned it today. The boys and I had rootbeer flavor. Yum. Eric had cherry.
