Saturday, March 7, 2009

body movers

all that Ram Dass hasn't really sunk in, or elevated me, rather. My mountain is definitely analogous, i'm looking through the windows of perception at like, um, a mirror?
I recently learned, through investigation into the source of a pesky abdominal pain, that I have a thing about my uterus which is technically a congenital deformity. A pretty little wall of tissue divides it partially in half. A septate uterus is the most common cause of trouble getting pregnant, early and late-term miscarriages, and premature births. But go in through the vagina, snip snip, watch it unzip - the septum retracts and the uterus has now one single cavity with no annoying, poorly-vascularized flesh obstacles to fetal implantation. Also, I found out this brand of 'deformity' is linked to renal anomalies - I could have only one kidney. While all this could be very "cool cool cool," if what I thought of as my reproductive burden has been lifted by a physical anomaly, would I feel slighted?

1 comment:

C Lavender said...

my uterus is off kilter. i miss you.

-chelsea