Every family has its troubles, skeletons, and jokes. A running joke for my family is the varying medical problems that we all share. We have a nice general range of High Blood Pressure, Hyper-Tension, High Cholesterol, Diabetes, Asthma, Heart Problems, Stroke, Fibroids, Cysts, Lupus, and various bodily aches and pains.
I've been lucky through my youth to only get away with minor sprains and the occasional and rare bout with Asthma. But jokingly I did feel left out from all the rest. What can I say, I wanted to fit in.
Well I got my wish it seems. As you know I recently had another cyst removed. In doing so my OBGYN discovered the root of the problem. Over the past week I've been reading about it, trying to understand what the heck it is and what I can do...
Endometriosis (I always mis-pronounce it) - Which is to say my uterus
throws up backwards and it hurts like a bitch. At least thats one of the ways - there are other causes for Endometriosis; but mine is uterus regurgitation into the fallopian tubes.
Apparently not much is known about Endometriosis and there is a lot of conflicting information. It can be the result of a lot of things or a few things. Luck of the draw I guess.
So I got my wish, my own little medical quirk.
But like the saying goes things come in threes... so no doubt I'll get another cyst down the line. Hopefully this one takes more than 4 months to form.
And if someone is feeling like a remarkable asshole... these would make great gifts.
