@MotherofDragons, no, exploratory laparoscopy. After months of severe pelvic pain not properly addressed in her college town (doc in her college town said the fact that the patient’s mother is a nurse but says symptoms sound like an ovarian cyst clearly means she must be a crappy nurse because everyone knows you can’t get ovarian cysts while on birth control), we flew her to Dallas to be seen by my doc. Sonogram showed potential large ovarian cyst. Surgery confirmed it, and it was removed.
Would I be really petty to send college town doc pics of her surgery and said humongous ovarian cyst?
December is such a rush, and I work through the holiday many years, little extra time off. So appreciate the continuing lights in this dark month. In a week or two, will be looking forward to the clean look, but right now, enjoy the bright spot in the room with the tree. Everything else is being put away now.
No, Nrdsb4, the local doc needs some education. To say the least.
When I first moved to FL, I developed a cyst. I didn’t trust the new docs, so had them coordinate with my Boston doctor. The Boston doc said “no” to a hysterectomy, let it bleed out, etc. he saved me years of discomfort. By now, the FL docs are far better, but I’m glad I didn’t follow the advice of the local MD.
Ornaments are now off the tree, and some are put away. Many decorations are down. Tomorrow I will get the rest taken care of, so I don’t have to worry about things during the week. Hopefully I can get the kids to help a little, but I won’t hold my breath.
I meant to only do a little then it felt so good that I took everything down except the outdoor lights. I have some “winter” things out still including a winter but not quite Christmas table cloth. It feels really good.
All of the exterior decorations were taken down and disassembled in order to prepare for wreath redo next year. Tree comes down tomorrow . I so miss my cheery snowman when I pull into the driveway after dark.
Almost done, DH will put the boxes back up in the garage tomorrow. I was strangely motivated to sort and clean as I put things away. I dusted baseboards and window casings, scoured the sliding door frame, and tossed gift wrap doodads that I no longer use (metallic tape in multiple colors? Why did I ever buy those? And why have I kept them?). The house feels fresh!
I still have a wreath on the door. I hate to take it down as it is to early to put up the spring wreath and it looks so bare with nothing there. What do you people do? Bare front door? Something else? I need ideas!
@Onward I live in the South and monograms are very popular. I plan to put a monogrammed door hanger on my door. I saw a cute wreath made from balls of yarn with mitten accents which was really cute for winter.
I googled the monogrammed door hangers and some of them are very nice. So do you just use your own monogram? Seems a little odd to just put one family members monogram on the front door.
@Nrdsb4 I had a laparoscopy in my late 20’s-same issue. Good on you that you didn’t accept the dx from the first doc. That surgery was ilfe-changing for me.
I apologize for the thread spread back to your regularly scheduled home decorating…
@Onward another southerner here (by choice, not by birth) and we do a magnolia leaf wreath on the door. I have a tree in the backyard so I hot glue gun the leaves to a green foam ring until all you see is leaves. It lasts for months. Other people will wire the leaves together, but that’s a lot more work.
I do see a lot of the monogram door hangers now, too. It’s one initial, not the whole name, done very elaborately. There was a big kerfluffle in our neighborhood recently because somebody’s initial was stolen off their door (very rare in this n’borhood-people leave their stuff all over the place and nobody ever takes it).
These are the ones I found that I liked, but they are 3 initials. I suppose you could put the husband’s and wife’s first initial with their last name as the middle letter. That works better than just one person’s monogram.
Then the age old question: whose initials? Last name, wife’s first and middle? Or last name, then his and her first name initials? It’s pretty. I’ve seen the monogrammed necklaces, even have one someplace, but not the door deco.
I feel like I’d like to do a winter wreath of some kind. I went from Halloween door hangers to Indian corn to Christmas wreaths that were too Christmas to leave up. I need to get out there and get some ideas.
^ I have a wreath made of pine cones on my front door. It has a red ribbon on it for Christmas, nothing else, but I can take that off for post-Christmas winter.
