Abortion is a medical procedure. It is a life saver. Also fuck it. You shouldn’t need this story to be convincing. You should just respect people who can get pregnant. And apologies for saying women earlier, not just women can get pregnant.

Now imagine I went through all this because some fucks thinks their sky daddy says women should have no autonomy and that all we are are breeders and who gives a fuck about us. No coverage for any of these costs because fuck women right.

I have a kid with suspected level one autism. She has had the worst fucking week. Last night she was terrified I was not going to be home when she woke up in the morning. She has had daily meltdowns because her entire routine was gone.

My body basically hated the stents. It’s been a day and a half and things still hurt. I have some nerve damage which is an expected outcome. I have medication for that. I have medicine to stop acid because I have gastritis.

And then I’m awake and my brain can only remember that it was in agony. That’s the weird thing for me with being sedated. I wake up in the same place. In the same conversation. In the same pain.

My anaesthetist in his very all deep voice tells me he is going to just knock me out now. My surgeon is speaking comfortingly. The nurses are quickly calmly but so so so quickly setting me up to go under. Someone is very kindly stroking my forehead. And I am out.

Ok. Got my meds. Back to it.

Have you ever been in a surgery theatre and tried to not scream in pain but fail so badly every medical professional there panics on your behalf? Because that pain reaction is the worst. It’s beyond a ten.

Not all good. At first they think I must have pancreatitis because of the severe crippling pain. Nope. Enzymes are good. In fact great. All my stats are fucking sweet. It’s the stents. My body cannot handle the stents.

First available date is three days before my birthday. So. Tuesday just gone. All good tho. They will do the ERCP with sphincterotomy, pop in two stents to try avoid more pancreatitis and I should be good to go home until the evening of my birthday to get the stents taken back out.