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I guess I will just carry on from where I ended last time.  I had just finished up my 2nd ovary removal and I was about and I was about 24 or 25 at the time.  After the second surgery I didn’t hurt as bad from the endometriosis but I still hurt.  When I went to my surgery check up they said I would more than likely always have pain from the endometriosis because I had such severe endometriosis when they took the ovaries out.  I literally have endo scars all over my abdominal cavity, on my organs, my bladder, etc.  I did pretty good for a while there.  Then in 2008 I got a new job and I was so happy about it.  The only problem was that I had started having pain on my right side again.  I was just putting up with it figuring it was just the endo acting up again.  However, one night while I was sleeping I rolled over and felt a pain in my side more severe than I had ever had.  It literally felt like something was being torn out of me and that was a new type of pain.  I called into work first thing the next day and got in to see my doctor that day also.  When my mom and I got there I explained where it hurt and the type of pain.  He did a pelvic exam and an ultrasound but couldn’t really see anything going on.  He decided to schedule me for another laproscope the next week.  I went back to work and filled out all the paperwork for short term disability and sickness forms to last several weeks to cover however much time I would need to be out.  This was in 2008.   I went in for a simple look around in my abdomen but the doctor came out after about 30 minutes and told my mother that he would have me in surgery for at least 3 to 4 hours because he had found an abdominal hernia that was 4 inches by 6 inches (the size of a regular picture) and it would take him at least that long to put in the necessary mesh and stitch together the mesh and the remainder of the abdominal wall. Then he had to stitch up the outside as well.  At least I worked for a good company, I had to be out for 8 weeks of recovery and they were completely understanding and even got me on short time disability even though I really hadn’t been with them long enough to get disability yet, my general manager somehow made it happen.  Well that gets me up to 2008 and I think I’m going to stop here for now.  It’s good for me to get it all out but I also have to do it in short amounts of time or I get too upset.  Thanks :)

I don’t really know why I am doing this except for the fact that I can write things better than I can talk about them.  And the fact that I don’t have that many friends/family that I can talk to who actually understand what I am going through.  I’ve been having health problems since I was 13 years old, that makes 22 years of being sick in some way or another.  It started out with endometriosis at 13 years old.  I suffered from that extremely horribly from the age of 13 to now.  I had to suffer all through high school with horrible cramps that came and went with my period and without it.  It was a kinda all the time thing.  I also was continuously getting cysts on my ovaries that were painful in themselves but OMG worse when they ruptured.  At the age of 21 (actually 2 days after my birthday) I ended up in the hospital having my gallbladder removed.  My dr thought it was very odd because I had never been a big meat eater and ate low cholesterol food all the time.  And if you don’t know red meat and high cholesterol are the main factors that cause gallstones of which I had two marble sized ones.  That was the first surgery that I had ever had.  Since then I have had at least 15-20 laproscopes (sp?) to deal with my endometriosis and various other things.  Around the age of 24 I had to have one of my ovaries taken out due to the horrible endometriosis and cysts surrounding it.  At about 26 or 27 I had to have my tonsils out due to repeated tonsilitis and within a week had to have my other ovary taken out (before I’d even recovered from the tonsilectomy).  The good part of it is that I don’t remember the tonsil surgery due to the pain of the ovary removal.  Well it’s getting late so I will continue this later…..