As those of you that are followers of mine on Facebook know, I suffer from stage 4 Endometriosis. This passed Monday I had an elective historectomy to attempt to alleviate the pain and suffering that I have endured for years.
To put a long story short, the surgery went badly. The endo was worse than expected so they had to back out and instead of doing the surgery laparoscopically as intended, they had to make a 11 inch incision from hip to hip.
Shortly into the surgery I began losing a fair amount of blood. I had to have a transfusion.
My uterus was calcified - completely hard, and somehow my bladder had moved forward and down, so the two organs were resting one-in-front of the other, with my bladder āin frontā, sort of molded around my uterus. On top of all that (literally) was my bowel, and the whole diorama was completely held in place via adhesions - scar tissue from the endometriosis. NSFW/L picture of this arrangement from before they pulled out to do the manual incision: http://i.imgur.com/QRzBVRk.jpg
My right ovary was ānormalā - as normal as it could have been, given circumstances.
They could not find my left ovary, period. They dug around so thoroughly they had to send someone to triple check that it hadnāt already been removed in a previous surgery. Once they were certain it was there somewhere they searched all over and finally found a lump. They missed it the first several times because it looked like a mass of scar tissue, attached to my abdominal wall higher on my left side. They finally determined this mass was my ovary, and when removed and cut open my surgeon described it like a raisin surrounded by a wad of scar tissue - it was completely encased in adhesions.
Anyway, I was hospitalized for a few days post-surgery then released, but Friday night I had to come back because my fever shot up to 102F. They are expecting this stay to be at least a few more days because my fever and pain are currently nearly uncontrolable.
Right now, weāve spent every dime we have trying to get me through all of these unseen complications, and my partner having to make sometimes-multiple trips home daily to take care of our pets has obliterated my small savings.
Iām not here asking - **Iām begging**. If you can spare a few bucks, it would be amazingly kind and generous of you. I donāt know if I am going to be able to get a lot of work done imideately, but I will pledge that all donations over $10 get a sketch, $25 get greyscale shading and $45 get color, all work to be done digitally.
My PayPal is [email protected]. If you are donating enough to qualify for art, please note or email me the ref, or simply include the link or description of your charactet and ideas with your payment (my preferred method). Please, only one character per donation tier, however if friends want to combine their art I am happy to work with you all together and ever so thankful.
Even if you canāt help right now, a signal boost would be amazingly kind of you.
From the bottom of my heart: thank you.