It can be about literally anything idgaf I just need something to focus on other than my aching pelvic muscles.

Edit: thank y’all for all the replies! I’m gonna get back to as many as I can over time! I’ve been napping a lot the past day and have been ignoring a lot of phone notifications lol

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Not OP, but- she’ll have lost some mass, but it might not be a noticeable amount. The uterus is a super adaptable organ: depending on what stage of menstruation, pregnancy, or neither, the uterus can range in size from a chicken drumstick to a basket ball.

    She also will have been NPO (nothing by mouth - no food or drink for around 12h before the surgery), so her weight going in was likely lower than normal; and had an IV pumping saline into her during her operation / waking up hungry as fuck and now with the green light to actually eat… so, she may have actually gained weight just by returning to a normal state of satiation and by being super well hydrated.

    Source - I’m a surgical tech. I’ve assisted in probably a hundred or so hysterectomies, and have physically handled the specimen after it’s been removed in nearly all of them.