At last, it was surgery day. Bella lay in the hospital bed, her heart pounding rapidly in her chest. She couldn’t remember when last she’d felt this anxious.
The kids were with Rico and Ceci today, giving Nathan the chance to focus on Bella fully, pre-surgery at least. Bella clung to his hand as the medical staff got ready to whisk her off to the operating room. They’d explained the surgery to her again already. The plan was to make an incision in her abdomen and remove just her uterus if the endometriosis and fibroids had not spread to her ovaries and fallopian tubes. If she had to remove all organs, the radical hysterectomy would through her right into menopause, which was something everyone wanted to avoid. Best case scenario was that Bella would walk away with all other organs intact and her life back. No more constant pain, no more heavy bleeding. “You’ll be fine,” Nathan had promised her. They both knew it wasn’t a guaranteed promise, but Bella just nodded and told her that she loved him. As she was wheeled to the OR, she closed her eyes and tried to think positive things. She had to make it through the surgery. She had to return to her loving husband, her kids, her family, Ithemba. She just had to. Her life was only beginning. As a young medic told her to count backwards from 100, Bella began but didn’t make it past 95 before the anesthesia took her under. She had a dreamless sleep, completely unaware of the complications that occurred midway through surgery. Of the unpredictable massive bleed that made the doctors have to race against the clock to put a stop to it. She was blissfully ignorant of the extra blood that had to be rushed into the OR and transfused into her body. Or of how dangerously low her blood pressure dropped and how close her heart came to stopping. It was probably the best sleep that she’d ever gotten. Meanwhile, the world around her was in chaos as the doctors fought to contain the bleed and save her life.
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