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rowanberry) wrote2019-06-13 07:58 pm
rowanberry) wrote2019-06-13 07:58 pm
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It's been a long and heavy week, this one. Apologies for not commenting much, especially after adding lots of lovely new people. I'll pick up again when my energy does!
It always feels wrong to describe a funeral as "good" but I think it was, a nice send off for someone much loved and respected. I still feel sore. The drives to and from were interminable in the weather - a journey that's usually three and a half hours was closer to five, both times. The rain didn't stop. Still hasn't stopped.
My period has been monstrous again. Last month it went on for ten days and I bled heavier than I've done since I was a teenager. This month, the heaviness is back and the pain was so severe on Tuesday night and Wednesday that I could hardly walk. They're not just stomach/back/pelvic cramps, either, but everywhere between my waist and upper thighs. Vulva cramps that meant I haven't been able to use my Mooncup because putting it in and taking it out if I get a cramp at the same time is so excruciating. I nearly screamed trying to get it out on Tuesday, and it took me a full five minutes to get my muscles to unclamp and release it. This is the first time I've not used it in ten years, and everything feels so messy.
If I have another one like this next month I'll go to the doctor - perhaps there's some new endometriosis that's making it so awful, or the piece that was too difficult to remove when I had the surgery before might be causing new problems. Or maybe it's more fibroids. At my last scan they said the fibroid they could see was nothing to worry about, but perhaps they're wrong. If nothing else, if this is how they're going to be in the future then I'll need some kind of medical reference for jobs, because I haven't been able to get up for two days now.
In better news, I won a free place on a willow weaving workshop next month! Very exciting! I'll get to make a basket and maybe a friend!
It always feels wrong to describe a funeral as "good" but I think it was, a nice send off for someone much loved and respected. I still feel sore. The drives to and from were interminable in the weather - a journey that's usually three and a half hours was closer to five, both times. The rain didn't stop. Still hasn't stopped.
My period has been monstrous again. Last month it went on for ten days and I bled heavier than I've done since I was a teenager. This month, the heaviness is back and the pain was so severe on Tuesday night and Wednesday that I could hardly walk. They're not just stomach/back/pelvic cramps, either, but everywhere between my waist and upper thighs. Vulva cramps that meant I haven't been able to use my Mooncup because putting it in and taking it out if I get a cramp at the same time is so excruciating. I nearly screamed trying to get it out on Tuesday, and it took me a full five minutes to get my muscles to unclamp and release it. This is the first time I've not used it in ten years, and everything feels so messy.
If I have another one like this next month I'll go to the doctor - perhaps there's some new endometriosis that's making it so awful, or the piece that was too difficult to remove when I had the surgery before might be causing new problems. Or maybe it's more fibroids. At my last scan they said the fibroid they could see was nothing to worry about, but perhaps they're wrong. If nothing else, if this is how they're going to be in the future then I'll need some kind of medical reference for jobs, because I haven't been able to get up for two days now.
In better news, I won a free place on a willow weaving workshop next month! Very exciting! I'll get to make a basket and maybe a friend!
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The willow weaving workshop sounds like a bunch of fun! Also you should definitely post pictures of your basket. :)
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I definitely shall! It was a nice surprise in my inbox :)
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