Perspectives: Crucial interventions: between survival and wholeness

The Lancet (worth reading - not specific to OC)

 ....For many of those who undergo it, the story of surgery is not awe or gratitude at the operative brilliance of a surgeon. It is learning to deal with the memory of pain and its persistence, and to live in an altered, perhaps diminished body, one that has become newly visible, vulnerable, and mortal. These experiences may last days, decades, or a lifetime. In this sense surgery, for all its triumphs, remains what it always was: a necessary compromise—emotional as well as physical—between survival and wholeness.