Introducing Me & Endometriosis

I was diagnosed with Deep Infiltrating Endometriosis very very late. I was so weak that I was put into the operating room with merely 50% chance of surviving.

In that 1st surgery, an endo cyst had developed in my cecum (the early part of colon) and caused a severe obstruction. I could not defecate for a couple of weeks, could barely eat for several days, could not sleep for a whole 3 days as the pain in my stomach was unbearable. I was badly malnourished and all of my vital signs were ugly.

And there I had my 1st laparotomy in September 2008. I had an ileocolostomy as a result.

I survived that 8-hour operation, and then again, had another laparatomy in March 2009, for an ileocolostomy closure, and a removal of rectovaginal and ovarian endo cysts.

Endometriosis is a very very tricky illness. It might be not as dangerous as cancer but that doesn't lessen the complication. When that endo cyst infiltrates too deep, you simply cannot imagine what can happen to you. When people with endo usually can be put into laparoscopy, I had 2 times of laparotomy instead. When people with certain illness can be 100% cured after surgery, there's no such guarantee in endo cases, which lead us women with endo going through surgery after surgery...

I'll share what happened and happening to me, what I used to know and what I know now, what I did, what I'm doing to overcome this ghost... The ghost which is going to haunt me forever, but sorry ghost, I'm not afraid...