I can say that if you have great health insurance, an oophrectomy sounds like it might be the best solution. I mean, I'm not a gyno, but if it keeps coming back, then I say yank!
Mine involved a two day hospital stay, and 4 weeks off. But YOvaryMV, since I had a grapefruit sized cyst on the one they took out, and they opened me up to lance cysts on the other ovary. Recovery was still fairly easy. I was...mmm...33? 34? and they wanted me to try and keep an ovary, but then Ovary #2 got all swelly, and the uterus was still all Evil Overlord, so 2 years later, I was all BEGONE REPRO ORGANS!
Erin,
They also have procedures where you can get the ovary out and go home same day. It's surgery with a mechanical arm. I had that to remove a fibroid. Quicker recovery and scars are small.
Sadly, doctors are rarely willing to send home offending ex-internal organs so that they can be placed in easily observable and securable locations.
It was true for me...though my excellent, but lamentably retired now, gyno promised that if it WAS a hairy teratoma, she would take a picture before she sent it to be biopsied. Or killed with fire, whatevs. (It wasn't hairy or befanged, more's the pity.)
I'm sure I can find *something* on Etsy to display in it's place.
I'm sure there are many things more terrifying than a simple, wee teratoma on Etsy...!
I always get really soaked when we color my hair, but I do make a good redhead, though.
YAY for the new baby.
Boo for the Evil Ovary.
I'm pretty sure I accidentally firted with a customer. I thought we were just bonding over Doctor Who and he gave me his name to look up on FB. Which is the same as a guy giving you his phone number right? I didn't realize this until after it was just really cool to talk about Doctor Who.
Also in flirting issues, a co worker made comments that another coworker and I flirt all the time and she thought he liked me, based on the fact I remembered he normally buys NOS and he went with something different. She tried to pull the "he only comes around when you're here" and she got in my head. I went on lunch and he was in the break room with (with some other people) and it made me nervous and act weird. Because I was trying not to act weird, so then I acted weird.
That and I tried to say anthropomorphic and stumbled over it every time. The M & Ms commercial was on tv where the brown M&M sends another one off with some chick who likes chocolate (presumably to be eaten) and I was trying to say that ads with anthropomorphic food kind freak me out.
Having a panic attack I think. Wish I could sleep through it. Wish I could call my BFF but she has to work tomorrow and I don't want to wake her up.
Aw Zenkitty, what would help?
I can find cute kittens for you.
