UTERUS! Its an organ! Get over it!

I have a major surgery coming up and I am frankly befuddled by the way people are treating me right now.

I am having a hysterectomy. It is considered a major surgery. A low risk, but non the less major surgery.

I have one friend who’s husband makes a big show getting up and running out of the room every time I mention my surgery or the reasons for it. I don’t talk about these things in gruesome terms, so I really don’t see what the deal is. His wife has a uterus. One day she too might have to go through something similar. You would think that he might want to learn about this shit.

People acknowledge that I am having a surgery and quickly change the subject. It seems that anything connected to the vagina is some how tainted or dirty.

Are we in the dark ages?

I know for a fact that if I was having a gall bladder surgery this would be the subject of dinner conversation.

Really.

How is a uterus so different from a gall bladder? (aside from the obvious issues of function and physiology)

That rant aside, I would like to thank my step mother, and my chiropractor for stepping up to the plate and letting me vent to them.

Thanks guys.