What It’s Like Needing Surgery During A Pandemic

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You may have to go out of your comfort zone

And what if they can’t get you an operating room? In my particular case, my doctor said I should not risk waiting more than a month to have the precancerous lesions removed. If she couldn’t get me an operating room in that time, she’d want me to go to Planned Parenthood. Why could they see me quicker? Because they don’t put you under for the procedure. So you just get to be wide awake while a part of your cervix is cut off and the wound is burnt – like charred – to be closed. Uh, no thank you. I waited anxiously by my phone for days after seeing my doctor, praying I’d see her office calling because that might mean they found me an operating room. I never, ever thought that I would cry tears of joy when my doctor called to say, “Okay, we can do surgery in 10 days.” I never thought I’d be so happy to be going under the knife, but COVID robbed me of the normal phase of resenting even needing surgery in the first place and made me jump to praying I could even have it done.