I Had Elective Surgery During COVID-19

And lived to tell the tale…

Photo by JAFAR AHMED on Unsplash

Three months ago, I had elective surgery to repair a defect in my urethra. I was experiencing something a lot of women my age experience — stress urinary incontinence or SUI— but in my case, it was caused not by childbirth or a lack of tone in my pelvic floor. I’m one of the rare cases where a simple physical defect causes me to wet myself if I cough…