Unmother’s Day: The day I had my uterus removed

A good friend of mine once told me that at some point, I needed to move on. To decide what I wanted to do with my life, with or without a baby. I cannot just anchor my future on perhaps and maybes.Hope, a powerful thing. For a woman who was trying to conceive a child, hope was what kept me going for years.

At that time, some people suspected that the reason I suddenly, some might even say stealthily, got married on a Cypriot island was because I was pregnant. But after years of not seeing a baby pop out, I guess the doubters were finally convinced it was just plain young, impetuous love. Perhaps it was this constant barrage of unsolicited, sometimes invasive questions that finally got through me. While I was still not a hundred percent certain, I started seriously thinking about having a kid. After discussing it with my husband, it became one of the major reasons we decided to settle down in his home country, so we could try for a baby and be surrounded by his family as we raised a child. We were both 33 so easy peasy, or so we thought. Apparently, it was harder than it seemed.

When I finally got the opportunity to get checked again after almost two years, I was told that my uterus had multiple growths that needed to be removed. I had a choice to keep my uterus and just remove the several fibroids but I was warned it was a risk that could put my health in a more critical condition in the future. I eventually decided to have a hysterectomy, which meant I would never be able to carry my own child.

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