Women are not running out to have their "parts chopped up". The fact is that most hysterectomies are not medically necessary, and women are scared into thinking that they have or will soon have cancer, when the majority are found not to have had cancer after their uterus was removed.
Perhaps your situation was different, and you had cancer confirmed before your uterus was removed, although from what you said, you felt that you lived in the shadow of cancer. Your medical problem may have been unique, one that was not amenable to conservative treatment.
You did what you felt was best for you, but other women may decide to choose conservative treatment. Many women who have a condition that could progress to cancer, choose other options in treatment and often the condition is cured without removal of their uterus or ovaries.
Your question, "Do our parts really define us?", the female organs do not define women any more than the male organs define men. A man whose penis and testicles have been amputated is still a man, but the functions of his male organs are gone. Women are more than their hormone responsive sex organs, but they are considerably different when the organs are removed. You can read what 1,000 women reported about their experience with hysterectomy http://www.hersfoundation.com/effects.html.
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Women are not running out to have their "parts chopped up". The fact is that most hysterectomies are not medically necessary, and women are scared into thinking that they have or will soon have cancer, when the majority are found not to have had cancer after their uterus was removed.
Perhaps your situation was different, and you had cancer confirmed before your uterus was removed, although from what you said, you felt that you lived in the shadow of cancer. Your medical problem may have been unique, one that was not amenable to conservative treatment.
You did what you felt was best for you, but other women may decide to choose conservative treatment. Many women who have a condition that could progress to cancer, choose other options in treatment and often the condition is cured without removal of their uterus or ovaries.
Your question, "Do our parts really define us?", the female organs do not define women any more than the male organs define men. A man whose penis and testicles have been amputated is still a man, but the functions of his male organs are gone. Women are more than their hormone responsive sex organs, but they are considerably different when the organs are removed. You can read what 1,000 women reported about their experience with hysterectomy http://www.hersfoundation.com/effects.html.
I wish you the best of health.
November 14, 2013 - 3:08pmThis Comment
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