Three Months Since Endometriosis Excision Surgery

It’s been exactly three months since my endometriosis excision surgery!!! 💛🎗🌻 

Looking back, I’ve been through a whirlwind this past year.  But it feels like this is a good point to try to stop counting- even though that’s been really hard for me.  I spent most of this past year counting and calculating absolutely everything.  How long does this pain last?  How many days have I experienced this?  How many times do I have to use the bathroom a day?  What day of my menstrual cycle is it?  How big is Bruno the baseball sized cyst at this point? 🎗🌻 

Today, exactly 13 weeks to the day post-op, I’m so ready to put as much of that behind me as possible.  I’ve still got endometriosis- and I am slowly learning to accept that I’ll never be the same me I was ever again.  I have a chronic illness. 🎗 I’m going to have good days and I’m going to have bad days.  But here’s hoping the good ones will finally start to outweigh the bad ones. 💛

I’m going to continue to look at sunflowers as my shining ray of hope. 🌻 Maybe they have always been there smiling at me with encouragement… it just took all of this for me to realize it.  I really loved this beautiful sunflower Starry Night inspired Christmas tree from our trip to Pittsburg back in January of 2022 when Eliot and I went to the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit with his family. 🎨🖼  And I think I’m going to make myself a miniature version of it next year so I can remember how strong I really am. 💛🎗🌻