One year since my endometriosis excision

Today marks one year since I had extensive endometriosis lesions scraped out of me for several hours. Though not my first abdominal surgery, preceded only by my bilateral salpingectomy a few years prior, the excision took a lot out of me. And not just because my bladder decided to stop working a couple days after the procedure, which prompted a traumatizing ER visit where no one paid attention to my bladder about to explode until I became hysterical. Still, I don't regret having gone through with the surgery. I'm incredibly grateful to my surgeon, who told me that I likely would have needed a bowel resection if I had waited much longer. What's funny is that the "gray-tan irregular tissue fragments" submitted to pathology did not come back positive for endometriosis even though the diagnosis during excision was indeed that—"only" stage II but rather aggressive, according to my surgeon. But officially it was just "chronic inflammation." As somewhat invalidating as that is, I know that…