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The D & C slash endometrial biopsy went about as well as I could have expected. It’s an outpatient procedure requiring general anesthesia so my husband had to take a day off work so he could be with me and drive me home afterward .

I don’t think the procedure took very long; I was still waiting to go in at 2:00pm and I was conscious again just after 3:15 or so. I was very motivated to get out of that hospital and I remembered someone, one of the recovery nurses I think, telling me that if I took deep breathes, I would be better able to expel the gas from my lungs and would wake up that much quicker. Believe me, I did all the deep breathing I could.

Just a few things I remember about the hospital: everyone was wonderful–from the intake person to the aide who wheeled me out. they were all working their butts off but they were super efficient and very caring. The other thing–and to my everlasting embarrassment this is what I was babbling about when they brought me out of anesthesia–the walls in that hospital were painted all those really ugly institution colors–institution puke green and institution pasty pink. Yeah, I remember telling one of the OR nurses that they should complain about the colors and get someone to change it–and I remember it was really very important to me at the time. Sara Richardson would have been proud.

I was released around 5:oo PM and felt well enough that we stopped for a bowl of pho at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant on the way home. I hadn’t eaten all day and was starving but we wereold I should only have something light for dinner. A nice hot bowl of pho was just the ticket.

I had some cramping and bleeding after the procedure and for four days afterward and then, miracle of miracles, it stopped. It stopped completely for a whole month.

Next….waiting for results.