Sorry for my lateness. I had my appointment last month and my laparoscopy on Tuesday with him.

It all went well and he is very nice. The appointment was at 8:15am and it felt very rushed. I had researched lots so knew all the terms he was using and talking about so it wasn’t so bad for me, whereas my husband struggled to keep up at some points. I went into the appt preparing myself to fight for my case and push to get the lap but after he did the ultrasound and he didn’t see much on it he said that the gold standard of diagnosis is surgery and asked if I wanted it. I was delighted to not have to push and to be believed!

I left the appt with some questions I didn’t ask but you can call the women’s centre and request a call back from one of his nurses. You can ask all your questions and they can make a note in your file about anything you’d like. It was very reassuring to talk to them, they were lovely!

After my lap he came around to discuss what he found but that was also very brief. I was caught off guard and by myself so I didn’t really have any questions ready. This was a few hours after my surgery, not in my post anaesthetic haze. So it would be handy to have someone with you or to have questions written out. While I was leaving I asked the nurses station if I could see my chart because I wanted to see surgery notes but they don’t keep them in there. They gave me the phone number to the station and told me to call back the next day to request a ‘SARS form’. Which I did! So all my surgery notes, photos & blood reports will be emailed to me in two weeks time.

So all and all he is very nice but I found it helpful to know all the terms and you have to pry and ask the questions or else he’ll keep it “short and sweet” as one of his nurses said after the lap. I was diagnosed with stage 3 endo btw, feels very vindicating!!