If you’ve been wondering where I have been, let me catch you up. Trigger warning, if you do not want to hear about medical stuff.

Mid-2025, I had my first appointment with my new PCP. The clinic had been redistributing patients and I was one of the people who was shuffled. At our visit, we reviewed my medical history, and she thought it would be a good idea to do an ultrasound to check my uterine lining, since I have PCOS and hadn’t had a cycle in a long time.

At the ultrasound, they saw something that could be a polyp and wanted to biopsy it. I had the choice of doing it in clinic or in an OR setting. Historically, I haven’t tolerated clinic procedures very well and decided to go the OR route. That way, they could take a more comprehensive look with a hysteroscopy and do a D&C to scrape out any overgrown lining and be able to examine it more fully.

I’ve had a few D&Cs before and didn’t think much of it. They scheduled it for the day after Christmas. I had a great care team and everything went as planned. They were mindful of my diabetes and mitochondrial myopathy, and I learned a few things about managing the mitochondrial disease during surgery. Pathology from the procedure would take about a week or so to come back, but I didn’t have any concerns about this, since it’s routine to have these things go to Path.

My phone rang on January 3rd, a Saturday. It was my OB surgeon. He asked if I had read my pathology results (not yet, they had only come in an hour ago or so), and if I wanted to get my fiancé on the call.

The pathology came back as Endometrial Intraepithelial Neoplasia (EIN), which is a direct precursor to endometrial cancer. If someone doesn’t want surgery right away, they can put you on hormone therapy to keep it in check for a while, but the definitive solution is a hysterectomy. He also noted that once they do the hysterectomy, in 40% of the cases, Pathology will find that there was already endometrial cancer present.

We had been talking with my doctors to see if pregnancy was still a possibility after we got married, but the chances were pretty low with my PCOS and age. Given all of that information, we decided that it was best to proceed with the hysterectomy.

I met with my GynOnc doctor and we scheduled the surgery for March 3rd.

Six stab wounds and an incision later, I’m at home recovering. Moving around is really slow, but I’m getting better.

Pathology came back yesterday, and it looks like I’m NOT one of the 40% and they did not find endometrial cancer in the specimen, just a lot of the EIN. I’m really glad that we caught it early. I will be off work for a while recovering and don’t have my post-op appointment for a few more weeks.

That’s what has been taking up most of our focus this first part of the year. I’m prioritizing rest, healing, and watching way too much YouTube. I’m attacking my TBR pile and only slightly worried about running out of books to read. 😂 Let me know if you have any recommendations for passing time during my recuperation!