Ever since a major health scare earlier this year, Bindi Irwin has been treating each day with care and deliberation. In fact, her life may be broken up into two phases, the conservationist has told Fox News Digital: before Bindi had surgery for endometriosis and after, when she got a second chance at living again.
Endometriosis is categorized by progressive abdominal pain as endometrial tissue grows outside the uterus. Bindi had been experiencing these symptoms for a decade – but it was only relatively recently that she could get a proper diagnosis. Now, she able to see the world in an entirely different light.
Bindi Irwin was sometimes bedridden from excruciating pain
“My life now looks completely different than it did before I had my surgery,” said Bindi. “Over the 10 years that I was really battling with endo[metriosis] without knowing it, I would get progressively worse every week and in the end, before my surgery, I was barely able to get out of bed.”
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Contributing to her pain was just how long she went undiagnosed. “I was tested for everything,” she revealed. “Every tropical disease, Lyme disease, cancer, you name it. I had every blood test and scan imaginable.” Because Bindi’s pain just persisted, doctors dismissed her symptoms, leading her to feel like the intense discomfort was “inescapable.”
By August 2022, there came a time when all Bindi could do was curl up in a fetal position from the agony of her condition. That’s when she was encouraged to get a laparoscopy, a minimally invasion procedure that allowed her doctors to access the inside of the abdomen and pelvis; finally, Bindi got her diagnosis.
Bindi Irwin is enjoying a “second chance” at a totally different life
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Bindi has been transparent to her followers regarding her diagnosis and the procedures that come with it. She was hesitant at first but shared her story because of “the responsibility I feel to share my story for other women who need help.”
Although the time leading up to her procedure was “really scary,” Bindi now feels she has a “second chance” at life.
“And now on the other side of surgery, I mean, I’m going for daily zoo walks with my family,” she shared. “I’m able to go to our management meetings and check up on our animals and do the filming work that I love and play with my daughter. And it is just so wonderful. I feel like I see the world in a new way now. I’m able to actually do things again.”
She teasingly added, “I said to Chandler the other day… ‘Have you always been this funny?’ And he said, ‘I think you’ve just been in too much pain.’ I said, ‘I feel like I’ve just gotten a new husband because you’re really fun and funny.”
