This time around, three weeks ago, I was sent off to the OT with an unusually thick endometrium and investigation to rule out malignancy. But once I stopped procreating (which is 19 years ago and ammi’sdoctor’s ominous ‘words of wisdom’ clapped back), she started acting up with one ‘bloody’ problem or the other. I’m lucky that my uterus cooperated through childbirth she behaved herself during both my pregnancies and gave me healthy babies. Your son is waiting for his University acceptance you miss your period.
In my case, and I believe many women are like me, the uterus takes the hit. For some people it’s the stomach, others develop skin problems including eczema and hair loss, some have psychosomatic issues. I’ve also always believed and even seen that every person has a medical Achille’s Heel, a certain part of the body that absorbs all trauma. A dormant uterus is a problematic one mom’s doctor wasn’t entirely wrong. The uterus needs to be constructively occupied to stay healthy and happy pin that down to having kids or an active sex life. And she’s as emotional as you are, or aren’t. It’s like an alternate being that may give mankind the miracle of birth, but is actually another woman that lives inside your body. If the average female hit puberty at 12 and menopause at 50, it gave her 38 apparently fertile years to have, let’s say 19 children. “The uterus,” my mother’s gynecologist told her, when she was in her forties, “is meant to procreate and when women stop having babies, the uterus starts acting up.” I could never really wrap my head around that theory it made no medical sense at all, especially to our generation that believes in science. That changes post-40 when, as my gynecologist said when I was 37, “It’ll hit you like a ton of bricks.” That ominous ‘it’, mind you, could be a sugar addiction and subsequent surplus weight, a bad smoking habit, the inability to replace hours planted in front of the TV with a brisk walk…any unhealthy spark could, nay would, flare into an ominous hell fire. When you’re young and seemingly healthy, medical obstacles are speed breakers, slowing you down to a safe pace, but rarely stopping you in your tracks. October 3, 2021: In the first half of a woman’s life, which I’ll base on an average 80 year life span, medicine is merely an inconvenience.
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