# @katieaknowles on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPI1Ko2CGL_
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/59777545-katieaknowles-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-28T07:55:58.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Katie Knowles (@katieaknowles) — https://gondola.cc/katieaknowles

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Well this really wasn’t what I had planned. 😑

The bit where they took my cervix and sealed it up ruptured which basically meant my insides went rogue, with crippling abdominal pains, difficulty breathing, incredibly painful gas, blood like Moses parting the Red Sea, fluid, and even my bowel where it definitely didn’t belong 

Saturday when it happened I was in so much pain I couldn’t move or walk and just cried on my own on the kitchen from 2-5.30am.  I nearly passed out from the pain. 

Bar the exhaustion and menopause bit, the recovery was finally going well.  I was pretty much back to normal - although I started working the day after my hysterectomy, so that clearly didn’t help. 

I was rushed in for emergency surgery. 

I thought it would be lots of waiting round, but they did blood tests, a CT scan, and had me morphined up & ready for surgery in under 10 hours

There was talk of my bowel having been perforated, having to have open surgery & another lumbar puncture.  I had every situation running through my mind and it was terrifying.  They had 3 plans for surgery, and two of them were huge.  A team of 6 surgeons and 2 anaesthetists looked after me, and made me feel slightly more at ease, during what was the most painful & terrifying day I’ve ever had. 

Thankfully the surgeons managed to get me back into theatre, fix everything and stitch me back together. 

I’m very sore, bruised & exhausted, & so gutted that my recovery journey starts all over again now.  But thankful it’s fixed, because the pain on Saturday night was excruciating!

I honestly don’t know what I’d have done without my mummy. She took me to A&E first thing, sat with me all day, stayed until 11pm, and she’ll be back with me later today and looking after me all week. She really is my rock. 💙

Every single member of staff at Wexham Park has been so kind, gentle and patient with me, when I’ve been terrified, crying, and in unbearable pain, they’ve made me feel safe and cared for. We are so lucky to have the NHS and the staff that work for it.

#EmergencySurgery #RecoveryJourney #WomensHealth #HysterectomyRecovery #HealingJourney #ThankYouNHS #OperationRecovery #endometriosis #adenomyosis

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adenomyosis, hysterectomyrecovery, recoveryjourney, endometriosis, healingjourney, emergencysurgery, operationrecovery, womenshealth, thankyounhs

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