A Very Bad Bleed

Getting diagnosed is difficult for women.  At least it was for me.  After bleeding for so many years and so many D and C’s to stop the bleeding (which we now know will not).  Actually how can scraping my uterus stop me from bleeding?  What’s up with that?  I went in as an outpatient one day to have both another D and C and a laparoscope to see why I was bleeding.  That night every time I stood up, I passed out and fell flat on my face.  In the middle of the night my husband at the time took me to the hospital and after a “complete” exam I was given pain killers and told to go home.  I wasn’t OK.  By the next morning, my husband insisted my doctor see me because my stomach was huge and hard and I was still passing out.  He met us; my stomach was filled with blood because I had been hemorrhaging all night and I was given blood into both arms and rushed into surgery where they took out my uterus and ovaries.  You might not be surprised to find out that after surgery I hemorrhaged from the surgical scar all the way to my chest around to the back of me.  Was a hematologist called in?  No.  Of course not. I am a woman.  He didn’t get called in for another three weeks.  Are any of you ladies surprised?  What are your experiences?