January 27, 2008
If You Have Hysterectomy, You Won’t Have Children
What to do if you do not have children in a Christian marriage with the man you love and the doctor wants you to do CA-125 test for cancer!? And if nothing helps, after eight years of marital infertility, you get the feeling that there is a hysterectomy ahead of you!? eTrish has several blogs, one personal and the other devoted to her own infertility, so if you are in a similar situation, you might like to read them. She approaches her problem from a Christian point of view and it really is hard to understand that if God likes her so much, then why would she be barren!?
On this site, although it is about avoiding hysterectomy, there is a strong section on marital infertility. Quite simply, the ladies asked me and I have answered what would have I suggested to them from the point of view of medical astrology and energy healing. Here are the links of interest:
General notions of medical astrology
Spiritual dimensions of medical astrology
Astrological Example of Female infertility
Astrological Example of Infertility and Miscarriage
Astrological Example of Infertility and Tumour
Filed under Marital Infertility by Dusko Savic
January 18, 2008
Laugh More, Whine Less, and Hug Your Children a Little Longer
In astrology, the 8th house is about karma, sex and death. In real life, the end of the sexual intercourse is sometimes called “the little death”, as if something is gone, is going away from you and with it, as if you were somehow transformed. The cumulative role of reproductive organs is to inhale and exhale, to receive in and to let out, and what happens when you have hysterectomy — the surgical removal of the uterus — is that you cannot give any more, at least, not as a mother. But what if you already had your children, will it help you to bear easier the thought of forthcoming hysterectomy? Or, the thought of any other life-treathening surgery!?
Here is this beautiful post by Sabrina Prindiville. A mother of five, last winter she was diagnosed with a lump on her thyroid. For two long weeks she waited for the results, only to learn that the tumor is benign. And then, another tumor, which needed a hysterectomy. Touched by the thoughts of death, just when she found out that her 18 year old oldest son and his girlfriend were pregnant… We always know life is fragile, but do our best to conveniently keep forgetting it… until a surgery comes along, or we start thinking how our children would grow without us… or… or… or…
So her hysterectomy taught her to laugh more, whine less and hug her children a little longer. She also found the courage to compete and win a new career position, because it’s change or die, but you’re gonna die anyway one day, so why not change now and grab the life that you were born to and into?
ASTROLOGER’S NOTE
The moment I am writing this, Pluto is on 29.45 Sagittarius, and the moment I read her post, the Moon was on 29.50 Taurus, making as precise an inconjunction with the Pluto as it can be. Inconjunction is the “tweaking” of life that Sabrina went through, because of her reproductive organs (the Moon is the uterus, Pluto is a cut-away tumor, their inconjunction is a surgery such as hysterectomy.) The Moon is exalted in Taurus, where it secures life, and on the last degree of Taurus, the Moon has stopped producing life. Finally, now it is on 0.12 Gemini, the sign of blogs and short writing, so here am I, blogging about a hysterectomy irrevocably (Pluto) changing somebody’s life.
Filed under Astrology, Hysterectomy, Uterus by Dusko Savic
Here is a recent case in India — I’ll quote from the blog post from the Law and Other Things blog
“…the doctor began by conducting a diagnostic laparoscopy but followed it up immediately thereafter, having obtained additional consent only from the patient’s mother (as the patient was still unconscious), with a second and more elaborate treatment procedure (‘laparotomy’) that resulted in removal of the patient’s uterus and ovaries (hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy). [The patient, upset over this fact, refused to pay upon discharge. The doctor sued for recovery of charges and got a favorable ruling from the National Consumers' Commission. The patient appealed in the SC]. The consent form signed by the patient at the very beginning stated that the patient had been informed that the treatment to be undertaken is ‘diagnostic and therapeutic laparoscopy. Laparotomy may be needed’. The outcome of the case turned on the definition of ‘laparotomy’ – the word simply refers to opening the abdomen; so, in this instance, did it also imply consent to remove organs from the patient’s abdomen after it had been opened (as the doctor argued)? The court’s answer was in the negative and it emphasized that if that was indeed the case, the consent form ought to have read “”diagnostic and operative laparoscopy. Laparotomy, hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oopherectomy, if needed.”
It is a real life situation that has plagued many women who wanted their gynecological problems solved, and instead, ended up without their reproductive organs to the end of their days.
It really is in the discretion of the surgeon. The patient is unconscious, and may not be able to undergo another major surgery if the surgeon woke her up just in order to ask her whether she would like to have the foci of cancer, for example, preserved…
Now let’s reverse the situation. The consent only gave permission for some surgery and not for any radical surgery at all and let’s suppose that the surgeon visually found out the masses of cancerous tissue all over the uterus and abdomen? Wouldn’t he be neglecting his duty to cure if he just dully noticed that the patient is soon going to die but what the heck, there is no written consent, so let her wake up and then tell her the situation. Would she still be suing him for not operating properly on her?
The moral of the story is — you never know what will happen. And that is why I am always advocating avoiding hysterectomy if possible, not going for it like it’s a picnic… because it is not!
Filed under Hysterectomy, Laparoscopy, Laparotomy by Dusko Savic
January 11, 2008
Hysterectomy Question in the Forums
Hysterectomy makes everybody nervous, especially if you were told that it would be a possibility for you. So, what else to do, than to post your fears and concerns in a forum which you frequent… here is one such hysterectomy question in a forum on labradors, followed by the usual bunch of answers:
– Best thing that ever happened to me! I had mine 8/1/05. I was only in the hospital for 1 1/2 days. They were surprised I was ready to go home so soon. I was so ready for it. I’d had about 3 years of bad pain and about half of that had severe bleeding…
– I have no regrets with this surgery. I had surgery at the age of 34 in 2006. My surgery was done vaginally and they removed my cervix and uterus. I still have my ovaries. I was in the hospital for 24 hours, then released to go home. After about a week, I felt so good, I overdid it a couple of times and ended up getting very sore, thankfully I did not bleed internally, but that can happen if you over do it.
And so on. But, I have long ago stopped wondering why none of these women never tried anything else, say some alternative treatment to avoid hysterectomy, than to just wait it out — and since it always is a problem of estrogen domination, the tissues just keep on growing… leading to the inevitable end, hysterectomy.
Filed under Hysterectomy by Dusko Savic
The article from Nursing in Practice connects owerweight women older than 36 and obese women older than 43 to have higher risk of hysterectomy than other categories of women. Quoting from the article:
The study, published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, also found women who experience large gains in weight between 36 and 53 also have a greater chance of needing a hysterectomy in later life.
The journal’s editor in chief, Professor Philip Steer, said: “There are many health difficulties associated with obesity and the study shows that, particularly after the age of 36, being overweight or obese can be linked to hysterectomy in later life.
However, this is not an absolute truth and in each case there will be small differences… so what’s the point in such explorations and generalizations!? The woman may be owerweight because her pituitary gland is not working properly, which on one side will produce retention of water in the organism, and on the other side, will often produce gynecological problems. There might be something in these findings, but in the end, the healing must be individualized.
Filed under Hysterectomy by Dusko Savic
When you read forums and somebody says they are heading for hysterectomy, almost always one or two participants stands up saying that hysterectomy was the best thing that ever happened to them in their lives! OK, maybe that’s how it was for them, but not everybody has their own little “happy hysterectomy”. The case in point is Christine from Atlanta, let’s quote from this article:
Exactly one week after the hysterectomy, Christine awoke in horrible pain and immediately went to her doctor’s office. When she passed out in his waiting room, an ambulance took her to a hospital.
A CT scan revealed urine was accumulating in her abdomen. Christine says her doctor explained what he thought went wrong: When he was using a cauterizing tool, he must have nicked the ureter, the duct that carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder. “He really owned up to it,” Christine says.
The next day, her doctor implanted a nephrostomy tube, so Christine’s urine could accumulate in a bag outside her body. A week later, she had a third procedure to insert an internal stent to replace the tube and the bag. When that stent caused her pain, doctors removed it in a fourth surgery. Today, Christine is scheduled to have a fifth procedure to fix her ureter, which has become almost completely blocked by scar tissue.
Grant says the complication that caused all these problems — the nicking of a ureter — would most likely be considered a regular complication of the surgery, and not negligence. This means that even though Christine has clearly suffered, she wouldn’t have a case. “Just because you have a bad outcome doesn’t mean you can sue,” he says.
Since she lives in the USA, her relatives wanted her to sue, but it doesn’t seems it is possible — her costs are too small for an attorney to have a profit at court. (That’s what happens when you live in a profit driven justice system.) She is not well, and the money is gone. Being a physician herself, she knows how major surgeris can be dangerous…
Bottom line: avoid hysterectomy if you can.
Filed under Hysterectomy News, Laparoscopy by Dusko Savic
January 4, 2008
Can Raw Food Help You With Menopause and Hysterectomy!?
One of the ideas for better health is to eat raw food. Well, that may not be just your cup of tea, but the principles of eating raw are sound and you can give the whole idea a try. In case you were wondering how the other “girls” are doing, here is a link to a forum at GoneRaw.com.
Filed under Alternative Medicine by Dusko Savic
