Wow- We should form a club or something- the small orifici (sp) club or something. My dentist comments every time about my small mouth and I have such a hard time eating some of the sandwiches or hamburgers they serve. I have to cut a hamburger in half and angle it in.
And for those of you who got your AF through birthing- my heart so goes out to you! My one and only girl (almost 24!) just wasn't going to come out after I pushed for about 3 hours so I had a C-Section.
Some good news- just came back from the CRS and he pronounced me healed- said that if he didn't know my history, he wouldn't know I had a fissure. As of last Thursday, my skin tag area was bleeding some but after consistently coating the area with A and D ointment over the past days, it really does look pretty normal. He even did the finger in the butt thing, which he has never done! I just was praying and breathing as he did it because a year ago yesterday my family doc did the same exam and the fissure seemed to flare up from there and be worse. It was a good feeling to have it not hurt! The incision site I could feel slightly as he pushed on it but not really enough to call a hurt. He explained that when things heal down there, it is scar tissue and that isn't as flexible and can be more easily irritated so I guess that's what I've been experiencing. Just this morning I was so freaked out because it didn't hurt as I went but immediately afterward at the fissure site it was stinging and itching. He said it just has to settle in and become stronger with time. Said he would definitely be careful about keeping things soft on the BM side through 2011 and maybe into 2012, but that by partway through 2012 he thought I'd find myself forgetting about it and things would be fine.
7 weeks tomorrow- we went to a new breakfast place and I ordered a mimosa! Told the waitress I was celebrating something and then I thought shoot she's going to ask me what! But she said, congratulations- I'm not going to be nosy and ask what. And I said- that's probably a good idea!
Bambi