EN-DOH!
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
MY MY WHY CAN’T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY??
Short version: My endo symptoms have been gaining ground again. I’ve been dealing with fatigue, mood swings, bloat, insomnia, joint pain, and cramping in increasing amounts for the last year or so. I kept hoping it’d level out and just let me be.
It did not.
The current plan: Get on in there and pull out my left ovary. It’s the last structure standing in the ghost town where my reproductive city used to be, and the hormones it’s producing are causing at least some of this mess. Even on birth control (STRONG birth control), lefty’s landing punches, so out she goes.
Hopefully, that’ll be the end of that, but we’ll also be checking for cyst growth as long as the doc is in there. You see, sometimes you think you got all the devil’s velcro out of your body, and then you find out two years later that, nope, some snuck past. We don’t know yet what we’re gonna see. We do know for certain Lefty’s getting removed.
And, boy howdy, has this not gotten cheaper. Here’s the rundown:
For the surgeon’s time: $300.
For the anesthesiologist: $775.
For facilities: $1700.
But that’s not all. I’m working full-time, but I’m on contract, so I don’t have vacation time, and the five sick days I get through my agency have been mostly depleted because--you guessed it--endo. Based on previous surgeries, I estimate I’ll need at least a week off work. That’s $800.
SO THE TOTAL FOR THIS SURGERY IS: $3575.
BUT WAIT.
THERE'S EVEN MORE.
Six months after my last surgery, I was laid off from my job and was unemployed for 18 months. We managed to put a dent on the cost of that surgery thanks to the generosity of our friends and even strangers who supported our previous crowdfunding attempt, but we didn’t make the full surgery cost and ended up--at the time of my job loss--still owing $2500.
So, to cover THIS surgery and finally get us out from under the LAST surgery, the grand total need is $6075.
But let’s call it $5500 because I’m confident we (Sean & I) can pull together about $500 from now until surgery in December. However you can help with the rest--donating or sharing--would be greatly appreciated.
HERE WE GO AGAIN!
MY MY WHY CAN’T YOU JUST DIE ALREADY??
Short version: My endo symptoms have been gaining ground again. I’ve been dealing with fatigue, mood swings, bloat, insomnia, joint pain, and cramping in increasing amounts for the last year or so. I kept hoping it’d level out and just let me be.
It did not.
The current plan: Get on in there and pull out my left ovary. It’s the last structure standing in the ghost town where my reproductive city used to be, and the hormones it’s producing are causing at least some of this mess. Even on birth control (STRONG birth control), lefty’s landing punches, so out she goes.
Hopefully, that’ll be the end of that, but we’ll also be checking for cyst growth as long as the doc is in there. You see, sometimes you think you got all the devil’s velcro out of your body, and then you find out two years later that, nope, some snuck past. We don’t know yet what we’re gonna see. We do know for certain Lefty’s getting removed.
And, boy howdy, has this not gotten cheaper. Here’s the rundown:
For the surgeon’s time: $300.
For the anesthesiologist: $775.
For facilities: $1700.
But that’s not all. I’m working full-time, but I’m on contract, so I don’t have vacation time, and the five sick days I get through my agency have been mostly depleted because--you guessed it--endo. Based on previous surgeries, I estimate I’ll need at least a week off work. That’s $800.
SO THE TOTAL FOR THIS SURGERY IS: $3575.
BUT WAIT.
THERE'S EVEN MORE.
Six months after my last surgery, I was laid off from my job and was unemployed for 18 months. We managed to put a dent on the cost of that surgery thanks to the generosity of our friends and even strangers who supported our previous crowdfunding attempt, but we didn’t make the full surgery cost and ended up--at the time of my job loss--still owing $2500.
So, to cover THIS surgery and finally get us out from under the LAST surgery, the grand total need is $6075.
But let’s call it $5500 because I’m confident we (Sean & I) can pull together about $500 from now until surgery in December. However you can help with the rest--donating or sharing--would be greatly appreciated.
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Gayle Moffet
Organizer
Portland, OR