Annar eggjastokkurinn fjarlægður

Leik­konan Lena Dunham, sem er einna þekkt­ust sem höf­undur og aðal­leik­kona þátt­anna Girls, gekkst undir skurð­að­gerð í þriðju­dag­inn til að láta fjar­lægja annan eggja­stokk­inn.

Dunham greindi frá þessu á Instagram og sagði að eggja­stokk­ur­inn sem var fjar­lægður hefði valdið henni miklum óþæg­indum og sárs­auka und­an­farið vegna meðal ann­ars bólgu.

„Í gær gekkst ég undir tveggja tíma aðgerð til að láta fjar­lægja vinstri eggja­stokk­inn,“ skrif­aði Dunham meðal ann­ars. Hún sagði einnig frá því að und­an­farna mán­uði hafi hún átt erfitt með að bæði ganga og pissa.

Þess má geta að Dunhm fór í aðgerð fyrr á árinu og lét fjar­lægja legið vegna legs­límuflakks. Hún greindi frá því í við­tali við Vogue að hún hafi reynt allt til að vinna bug á sjúk­dómnum en að lokum hafi hún tekið ákvörðun um að láta fjar­lægja legið.

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Yester­day I had a two hour sur­gery to remove my left ovary, which was encased in scar tis­sue & fibrosis, attached to my bowel and press­ing on ner­ves that made it kinda hard to walk/pee/vamp. Over the last month it got worse and worse until I was simply a burrito pos­ing as a human. *** My mother took this picture after I spent 9 hours in the post op recovery area with v low blood pressure that the nur­ses were dilig­ently mon­itor­ing. I was so out of it that I thought I looked sensu­ally moody a la Charlotte Rampling (turns out it was more of a constipation vibe.) *** A lot of people commented on my last post about being too sick to fin­ish promot­ing my show by say­ing my hysterectomy should have fixed it (I mean *should* is a weird one). That I should get acupuncture and take supplem­ents (I do). That I should see a ther­ap­ist because it’s clearly psychological (year 25 of ther­apy, y’all. These are the fruits!) But a big les­son I’ve lear­ned in all of this is that health, like most stuff, isn’t linear- things improve and things falter and you start liv­ing off only cranberry juice from a sippy cup/sleeping on a glorified heat­ing pad but you’re also happier than you’ve been in years. I feel blessed creatively and tickled by my new and improved bellybutton and so so so lucky to have health insurance as well as money for care that is off of my plan. But I’m simultaneously shocked by what my body is and isn’t doing for me and red with rage that access to medical care is a pri­vi­lege and not a right in this country and that women have to work extra hard just to prove what we alr­eady know about our own bodies and beg for what we need to be well. It’s humil­i­at­ing. *** My health not being a given has paid spi­ritual dividends I could never have predicted and it’s opened me up in wild ways and it’s given me a mission: to advocate for those of us who live at the cross section of physical and physic pain, to rem­ind women that our stor­ies don’t have to look one way, our pain is our gain and oh shit scars and mesh “panties” are the fucking jam. Join me, won’t you? *** 📷 @lauriesimmons

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