My Surgery Story, No I’m Not Being Dramatic
My Surgery Story, No I’m Not Being Dramatic This story, my story, might be too much information, but these things need to be talked about To understand where my mind and body were feeling at the time, we have to go back to May 2018, one year before my surgery. My family and I were living in Iwakuni, Japan near the Marine Corps Air Station for my husband’s job. I had been feeling off and that something wasn’t quite right. Was it my IUD? This was my third one and it just had not been the same experience as the first two. I made an appointment with the GYN for a routine mammogram since I was 41-year-old. The GYN didn’t see me, but sent his Corpsman, a Marine medical specialist, instead. We talked, and I explained everything from how I wasn’t feeling myself, that I was fatigued, had hormonal imbalances with frequent episodes of crying for no reason, and horrible migraines. My migraines suddenly progressed from a couple per year to one or two a month. The Corpsman went bac...