HYSTERECTOMY

After the euphoria of the last six months, I'm afraid that we have not had such a good start to the New Year...............

Linda experienced a really bad haemorrhage just after Christmas whilst shopping in Ronda with Karen and ended up in the local hospital. After a thorough examination it was decided that she would have to return for a biopsy and was asked to make an appointment at out patients. This proved to be more difficult than we had originally imagined, but with the help of her brother Barrie an appointment was made for the end of January. However, in the interim, we were contacted by Nieves, a Spanish friend of ours, who recommended that we make an appointment to see Dra.Teresa Saiz Espildora, a Gynaecologist, based in Malaga. This we did and following another thorough examination, we were advised by Teresa, that in her opinion, Lin required an immediate hysterectomy!I couldn't bear the thought of putting Lin through the trauma of having surgery at the local hospital, with the language difficulties etc, so we decided to have it done privately at the Sanatorio Dr Galvez clinic in Malaga. The operation was carried out by Teresa on Wednesday 23rd January and although it went extremely well, it left Lin in a lot of pain for a number of days afterwards. Lin was in hospital for only 3 days before being allowed to come home on the Saturday afternoon. Fortunately, I was able to stay in the hospital room with her throughout, which was just as well as the nursing care was virtually non-existent!The hour and a half drive home was quite an ordeal, with every bump proving to be excruciatingly painful for Lin, but we were both so pleased to be home and back in our own bed. We are now on the long road to recovery, which is already proving to be frustrating for Lin, who desperately wants to get back into the routine of our new life together here, which was proving to so enjoyable and exciting since our move here last April .

As many of you probably know I normally go weak at the knees at just the thought of a syringe (if I see one on the TV I have to look away) so you can imagine how I felt when I was told by Teresa that I would have to administer a subcutaneous injection to Lin every day for a week, following her return home from hospital! I still can't believe I could do it without passing out!!!

Last Friday we returned to the clinic to have the staples removed and received the biopsy results back from the laboratory. It was discovered that Lin was also suffering from ‘adenomiosis’ which we understand to be an inflammatory disease of the womb, which was the cause of the bleeding.

With this sudden set back behind us we can now look forward to happier days…….