“It Looks Pretty Good Up There”
“ It looks pretty good up there”, my gynaecologist affirmed, his face buried somewhere between my legs . That’s a good thing to hear at my biopsy. I mean it’s not official, the tissue samples need to be sent off to pathology and analyzed. Cells need to be dissected checked for malignancies. But maybe he’s not commenting on it from a potentially diseased standpoint. Maybe - since he IS an expert on vaginas - he was saying it looks pretty good for a woman of my age. A menopausal woman. With an almost nonexistent sex life. I DID put in an extra effort to groom before my appointment…. The appointment. I hate being there. But I’ve been having menopausal spotting and bleeding and it’s something to not be shrugged off. And so I met with my family doctor -a wonderful woman who’s been mine and My Favorite Husband’s doctor for many, many years- and got a referral to the gynaecologist I’d seen a few years back. Because of “what’s happening” I was put on a priority wait list (down fro...
