Transplant, successful! with bonus Gyno visit talk thrown in.

Mom had her stem cell transplant yesterday. It was very fast, and went well, or so I am told.
Hooray!!!! Now she just has to stick it out down there in shitsburgh, until the docs say she can leave.
We're looking at probably a minimum of 15 days, to a maximum of 5 weeks.

She's doing well. Losing her hair, but keeping her spirits up. Yesterday after the transplant was complete, my dad left and went to Giant Eagle, and got her a birthday cake, to celebrate her "new birthday". Mom cried. Dad can be very thoughtful, and romantic and sentimental when he wants to be.

And now for the bonus OB/GYN girlie bits talk!

I had my appointment with my GYN yesterday. He said that he absolutely can take the fibroid out....................wait for it.............................BUT!

a) it's a major procedure.
b) there is a 5% chance that I will lose my uterus.

He said that if Phil and I had a child or two already, then the decision wouldn't be as scary. But since we do not, we really have to think about that risk.
The doctor's flat out advice is to have a child first. He did give me "terms" to look up on WebMD, because he wants me to be as educated as I can be.

The fibroid is between 1 and 2 centimeters smaller than my uterus (which is why they thought it was a duplicate), and it's literally on top of the left portion of my uterus. He told me that he can cut it out, but it will take part of my uterus too. He said that "normally" they are able to "reconstruct" the missing part, BUT in about 5% of cases, they cannot and end up having to REMOVE the uterus too.

That would be extremely devestating to me. So, Phil wants me to call Dr. Genius, but I have to agree to with Dr Hereathome. I want a baby too badly to fuck around with the possibility of losing my baby cage (as Andrea calls it...hehehe).

Dr Hereathome asked about the pain, how frequent it is, how bad it is, etc. He asked if it's something that I just can't tolerate on a day by day basis. I told him I don't have it every day, maybe once or twice a month. He gave me a prescription for Tylenol 3 to take in case the Naprocyn doesn't work.

I pretty much have decided to live with this for the next couple of years. Like I said, I want a baby. I don't want to hurt my chances even more.