In remembering that visit to the doctor and revealing to myself the reminisced question that the nurse made to me about my estrogen levels, I did more research on the subject while having an epiphany. The cause of my low estrogen levels was due to a unilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. An ovarian torsion and a cyst had caused my pain. According to the doctor, the left side of me was purple to black because there was no oxygen coming to that area thus casing my pain. This surgery was performed on me when I was thirty-five years old.
One day, I was at a fast food restaurant waiting for my food to go and while I was grabbing my food in the bag I ran to my car in excruciating pain. I was on my way to work and instead I found myself in my car crying, moaning, whining, screaming, and holding the left side of my belly. I was waiting for my period to arrive and again it was late and when I did get it, it would only last for three days. The pain that I felt was ten times the menstrual pains that I normally experienced but yet not as strong as labor pains if I can remember. I called an ambulance because there was no way that I could drive myself to a doctor and literally thought I was going to die in that condition and neither was I even thinking about calling work. Somehow I knew that this was going to take a while.
I had a feeling that I knew what was wrong with me. They did a CAT Scan and I was being reprimanded for moving around the stretcher bed. I didn’t care. After that was over, they put me in another room and I kept screaming in pain while five nurses were around me and as I said, “What the _____ are you all looking at?”
Next thing I know I am being put out and when I wake up the doctor tells me that I had an ovarian torsion with a cyst the size of a tennis ball. I was so drugged from the morphine, slowly regaining my consciousness from the surgery that I could care less what the doctor was talking about but I did manage to tell him, “I told you I knew what was wrong with me and you made me wait over twenty-four hours thinking that I would die from this horrific pain, you moron!”
