Honestly didn't think of this until you mentioned it. 10/10 gonna use this retort as soon as I can lmao

Flemish giants. They're just so absurdly big

No, but I got pics of my uterus while it was still inside of me. I wanted pics of it in the surgeon's hand for size reference but that wasn't allowed. 🙄

Oh fuck that's hard but one thing definitely sticks out. When I was young, every night it seemed, before my dreams started, I would float out of my bedroom window in a ray of light, still covered by my blankets. When the dreams ended, I floated back into my bed and then woke up.

My theory is that my dreams were heavily influenced by watching the x-files with my mom, or I was one of those regularly abducted backwoods Appalachia folks you hear about on the History channel at 3 pm on a Tuesday

Honestly, the biggest help from my friends is them listening to me bitch about it all. There's some bits that I only bitch about to the women (specifically the vaginal pain stuff) because my male friends would undoubtedly get uncomfy by it.

I'm a person who complains a LOT to process pain and emotions and stuff so I'm just spam texting in moments of intense pain and it helps and my friends are super understanding.

My mom helped out with my dogs the first two days post-op, which was great. She also delivered gas-x which is a must have medication. The gas pain alone made me think I was gonna die.

What can friends do to help during recovery?

If you know what kind of food she likes, bring her that. Having meals ready to go saves a lot of hassle (and painful movement) right after surgery.

Go see the horse I have pretty much adopted and give her so much attention. Being away from her sucks. I get to go visit on the 20th because my mom will be helping me deliver a supplement for her since I can't do any lifting, but I'm not allowed to do anything with the old girl. My friends who know the horse say she's been kinda down since I stopped coming around and that has me bummed. Hopefully she'll perk up when I visit. Gonna bring her an apple. She loves those

It was laparoscopic. And my favorite dinosaur has to be archaeopteryx.

I had recurring endometriosis and my doctor and I decided to just get rid of everything except my ovaries to prevent future surgeries. I don't want kids and I'm gay, so I don't need a uterus anyway. I've only wanted this for 12 years, but it took a long time to find a doc willing to even consider it.

A surgical procedure to remove the uterus and ovaries, basically. A major surgery

Oh fuck that's so hard. Like, I think memes are the best thing ever unironically because they transcend so many barriers of communication, but I can't choose just one as my fave. Tho dat boi lives fondly in my heart.

Not OP, but- she'll have lost some mass, but it might not be a noticeable amount. The uterus is a super adaptable organ: depending on what stage of menstruation, pregnancy, or neither, the uterus can range in size from a chicken drumstick to a basket ball.

She also will have been NPO (nothing by mouth - no food or drink for around 12h before the surgery), so her weight going in was likely lower than normal; and had an IV pumping saline into her during her operation / waking up hungry as fuck and now with the green light to actually eat... so, she may have actually gained weight just by returning to a normal state of satiation and by being super well hydrated.

Source - I'm a surgical tech. I've assisted in probably a hundred or so hysterectomies, and have physically handled the specimen after it's been removed in nearly all of them.

I definitely dwell on my physical appearance more than I should. I have a bit of a belly. I'm slowly losing weight and getting noticably slimmer and stronger, but I can't really vent about how I still hate how I look to my friends/family because I'm either smaller than them and/or losing weight faster than they are and venting about it comes off the wrong way because they seem to get a bit jealous. Turns the vibe to shambles

It was done laparoscopic. 4 small incisions in my abdomen. I was given tramadol, 600 mg ibuprofen, and told to switch between the ibuprofen and OTC Tylenol every 6 hours and take the tramadol as needed. The ibuprofen has been working well, but the Tylenol doesn't really help so I take 1/2 a tramadol if I can't handle the pain before I am due to switch to ibuprofen.