Did you know???

• That all women have a 'pouch of Douglas'?
• I didn't until today. My dear friend. Sandi's daughter has been in surgery all afternoon, having fluid removed from her pouch and having bits of a mass taken for biopsy.
• Although we are trying to remain positive, after doing heaps of research, we are not expecting good news tomorrow.
• Tarsha is only 31, married just 3 short weeks ago, with a nearly 5yr old little boy. I am trying to be positive for Sandi, just being here for her when she needs me to be and taking a backward step until she asks me to step forward so to speak.
• Tarsha has a huge mass, so huge it has displaced her kidney and spleen, rising up from her liver and bladder, fluid in the pouch of douglas (which they have drained today). It is so bad (my opinion anyway) that her specialist, wouldn't even let her go home from his rooms yesterday, instead he admitted her immediately into the Royal Women's hospital for 'immediate' treatment. Results should be in later tonight or early tomorrow morning and depending on them, she'll be going back in for more surgery (radical surgery, by the sounds of it.)
• Having been through all Tarsha's trials and tribulations with Sandi over the last 12 years, this has really thrown me for a 6. I feel for my friend and her family, we are more like sisters than friends, share our sorrows and happiness together, everything.
• OK...i just needed to get all that out of my head..I have copied a bit of info about the pouch of douglas for those that would like to know what bits they have inside them!!! (AND..GO HAVE A PAP SMEAR!!!!!!! YES...TOMORROW!!!!!!!)
• Pouch of Douglas: An extension of the peritoneal cavity between the rectum and back wall of the uterus. The term "cul-de-sac," aside from being any "blind pouch or cavity that is closed at one end," is used specifically to refer to the rectouterine pouch. From that fact comes: Culdoscopy, the introduction of an endoscope through the vagina into the cul-de-sac; Culdoscope, the viewing tube (endoscope) that is used to look into the cul-de-sac; and Culdocentesis, the aspiration (withdrawal) of fluid from the cul-de-sac. In French, "cul-de-sac" literally is "bottom of (a) sack." As early as the 13th century, a cul-de-sac was a dead-end street (or a dead-end way), a blind alley. (The third letter in "cul" is silent in French; in English it is spoken. So, in French "cul" is pronounced "ku" and in English "kul"). The rectouterine pouch is called the pouch of Douglas after the Scottish anatomist James Douglas (1675-1742) who explored this region of the female body and left his name attached to at least 3 other structural features in the vicinity.