POP TOPIC

January 25, 2021

Who am I now?

I was thinking back to when I was diagnosed with POP. After everything my body had been through, delivering 3 children, a wife, working, chef and housekeeper to my household I think I put so much pressure on myself to b...

December 27, 2019

Time FLYS

It’s been a while since I posted to the blog. 𝐋ife was whirling around me with no stop control. We lost my father in-law to cancer. My husband boarded a plane to Australia to fly the bushfires. Our son and I followed ...

October 22, 2019

Lubricant and the Pessary

Okay. So if you all don’t know already, lubricant makes things slippery. To much and the Pessary slips through your fingers, lands on the floor, or the Pessary flips open and you can’t get a good grip to flex it back i...

October 11, 2019

Adding Vaginal BLING

Went into the local gynecologist, took some measurements, confirmed a cystocele and rectocele. Unfortunately, the office only had one size of Pessary available. I took it, giving a promise I would see my regular gyneco...

September 22, 2019

Greater the Symptoms

During the following year, my symptoms increased. If I sat too long, a burning sensation would start up. I felt like I was sitting on the bulge. I would stop what I was doing and lay down with my feet on the wall, hop...

September 19, 2019

Running the Pop Signs

I appeared to want to ignore the signs that things were not as they should be. I had a slight bulge in the nether region that would come and go with the type of activity I was doing. Bowel movements changed between con...

September 13, 2019

Hysterectomy

After a couple more oddities, medically speaking, that kept me off my feet for a bit, which I will assume slowed the progression of the POP, I was back on my feet, trying to play catch up on all the things I loved to do....

September 12, 2019

Looking Back "BP" (Before POP)

When I look back at my first pregnancy, then my second and finally my last, there was a pattern leading up to POP.