Hello all!
Today marks an exciting point in my life. You know when you have your mind set on something then years later you finally get it?! Well that happened today. (Really 2 weeks ago but I am celebrating today.) 2 weeks ago I got my tubes tied. Today was my follow up appointment. I get to the 9am appointment at 8:40. The doctor wasn't in yet. About 9:30 the nurse says he has 2 babies to deliver and it would be another hour before he gets in so she gives me the option to come back. Being the good student I am, I chose to go to class. I call back after class and they tell me to come as soon as I can and the doctor will see me within 5 minutes. They weren't lying. I talked to my OBGYN as he removed my stitches then released me from his post-operative care.
What really stuck out about this doctors appointment is something the nurse said to me this morning when talking about the procedure. She said, "That is the most selfless thing you could do. To make that choice and at such a young age, it's brave and I think it was a great choice and support it." That is probably the best compliment I have received in my life and it confirmed that I made the right choice. Someone once said, "having children is the most narcissistic thing anyone can do." I have to agree with this. I'm not saying no one should have kids because I'm not and its not that I don't like kids because I do, it's that people want to carry on the family name and their genes. While some people have excellent genes, mine have mutations with a painful phenotype to match the messed up genotype. It wouldn't be right to pass that on to a child. I made this choice many years ago. I first asked my OBGYN when I was 15 if he would do the procedure. I asked at such an early age because I knew they wouldn't agree to it at that age and it would take several years to confirm that I wouldn't change my mind. I wasn't expecting it to be 7 years, but here we are now. 7 years later and I finally got what I wanted.
Good night.
