hoping you feel well informed and at peace with the surgery Windingroad!!! and that it all goes well

Quote Originally Posted by nuliajuk View Post
I do wish they'd stop calling this surgery "hysterectomy". This goes back to Victorian times when the womb was thought to be the source of female "hysteria".
Would it be so hard to just call it a uterectomy, which is what it is.
agree on using the term uterectomy instead!!

The ancient Egyptians and then the Greeks thought a womans 'hysterical' disorders were caused by the uterus moving around in the body and then we had medieval european christians saying it was demonic possession and then the Victorians gave us a choice between hysterectomies for hysterical disorders or being committed to an insane asylum. thankfully medical science has evolved.