Like Mom going through Chemo now isn't enough, I find out my son will likely have to repeat the 3rd grade and now I have to have Surgery! Dang it! I can't catch a break! Apparently I have a Dermoid Tumor/Cyst on my right ovary. The last time I had one of these, I lost my left ovary.... so now it looks like I'll be 38 years old and have no ovaries! If I'm lucky, they will be able to save some of the ovarian tissue so I don't have to have Hormone therapy the rest of my life. But they aren't sure they will be able to do so, she mostly talked about saving what ovarian tissue they could save.
The Dermoid Tumor/cyst is much much much larger than the one I had last time that was about the size of a large orange or a grapefruit. I was reading that these can get to be 17 inches in diameter! So just how big is this sucker? Now I think I know why i've had some pain for a while on my back in the lower right. It is probably related to this! I bet the thing is pushing up against something!
I keep getting such bad news about stuff... I'm really dreading scheduling the mammogram that I have a RX for on my desk!
On a positive note.... I will have lost weight after the surgery! I only lose weight when my hair is cut or body parts removed. (sorry, trying to keep my sense of humor at least!
Laurie
1|1|Ugh so sorry. |Kristy|mi3zons1@yahoo.com|19:16:50|03/03/2011|
Maybe in the long run it will benefit your son.
That said the only time I lose weight is when I give birth. Stick with your method it's easier lol
"Women should not have children after 35. Thirty-five children are enough." - anonymous (Only 28 to GO!)
"You're so open minded that your brain leaked out." - Steve Taylor 2|2|LOL|jdlaurie|savethosepennies@aol.com|19:35:42|03/03/2011|
I lost weight with each of my pregnancies too!
I'm just kinda bummed. I hate that it's no longer an option.... ya know, I probably wasn't going to use the option... it was just nice it was out there. I would have loved to have more kids...and more money to afford them! I have to be lucky that I only lost one ovary after each kid and not before I had the kids. I had two miscarriages before I had my two children... so if this happened 9 years ago, that would have been worse.
The doctor said I could still have kids, just not with my eggs. While I know that works for some and I think it's a great option for some... I really enjoy that my kids look a little like me, act a little like me, etc.
My husband and I have honestly just recently been talking about whether or not to have more kids and we were really in agreement that the two we have are enough... they are perfect to us. So at least were weren't talking about having another... although I was secretly open to having an "accident" sometime in my 40's and I know my husband wouldn't have minded too much.
3|3|hang in there sorry to hear all the bad news but things have got to get better |lydzkydz|wyldkydz@embarqmail.com|19:40:01|03/03/2011|
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THANKS!! 4|4|yeah it's weird Matt calls it my pregnancy diets|Kristy|mi3zons1@yahoo.com|19:44:39|03/03/2011|
I've gained 8lbs this entire pregnancy but usually lose like 12-15 when they are born between baby weight and water weight. Starting over in your 40s sounds like a lot of work and that you are seriously crazy lol. Nah, I know a lot of people have babies that late I know I couldn't do it though. I have a hard enough time keeping up with my crew in my thirties. Couldn't they harvest some of your eggs now and use them later if you wanted to?? No idea the cost just throwing the idea out there.
One step at a time Laurie dear. You'll get through all of this and be amazed at how you come out in the end.
"Women should not have children after 35. Thirty-five children are enough." - anonymous (Only 28 to GO!)
"You're so open minded that your brain leaked out." - Steve Taylor 6|5|Yeah...|jdlaurie|savethosepennies@aol.com|20:11:11|03/03/2011|
they probably could harvest my eggs now... but I'm sure it costs a lot. And finances is one of the reasons we have really been talking about not having more kids.
I come from a large family, so maybe that's why I love kids... but then again my family (6 kids)are so split up as we got older that maybe it's better to have a small close group of family than a huge gang. 5|1|Laurie sorry to hear all your gpong through...|melpaul|Melpaul199@aol.com|19:53:12|03/03/2011|
will keep you in my prayers and thoughts Keep strong! 7|2|Thanks. Surgery will be on the 24th of this month|jdlaurie|savethosepennies@aol.com|20:12:15|03/03/2011|
I love how they tell you, you really don't want this thing to rupture and cause more problems... so we are going to schedule your surgery in 20 days! really? What if it ruptures before then? Doesn't make sense to me.
Laurie 8|3|Sorry to hear all that, Laurie|hudge4|hudge95@yahoo.com|21:37:10|03/03/2011|
Hang in there. I know someone who had one of those things removed. It was the size of a grapefruit. Crazy how those things are! I cannot imagine something the size of that in the space it is.
And yeah, I know how stupid those Drs are....worrying you about the thing rupturing, then schedualing it way out. Hello? Isn't this important?
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11|1|Praying for you.|BMOREGAL|bmoregal2000@aol.com|13:54:18|03/05/2011|
The needs of the many, outweigh the greed of a few.
wish list
morningstar farm veggie foods
Sabra hummus
activa $1
yo plus
millstone coffee $1
kashi foods $1
Bear naked cereal
Malto meal cereal IP ok
Tide $2
Purex 3-1 $3
Silk soy milk $1
baby wipes $1
Toilet paper $1...marcal, cottonelle ect
free food or paper items
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Doggie treats, Eukanuba
poptarts
Target pharmacy coupons for $10 GC wyb meds
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12|1|Oh Laurie I'm so sorry|jilda|vze4gj4m@verizon.net|14:13:55|03/05/2011|
for everything. why does it all have to happen at the same time???
I will be praying for you and your family. 13|1|Laurie...how did I miss this post yesterday? I hope you'll be just fine after your surgery (I bet you'll feel better, that can't be comfortable having such a large intrusion on your abdominal area!)....email me if you get a few minutes, lmk if I can do ANYTHING for you guys!|saint6811|waylan@comcast.net|16:42:03|03/05/2011|
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Oh, and of course you, your mom, and your family are in my prayers, sweetie...every day.
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14|1|Oh Laurie... I am soo very sorry to hear all the back luck with health issues. |driller|harj@frontier.com|17:23:16|03/05/2011|
I hope and pray that they get all of it and hasn`t started or spread somewhere else?
I can realite to the cyst. Seven years ago, I was having problems with bad chest pains after I ate,
and had all kinds of test. They "the doctors" kept saying it was all in my head. Ya right~
Well after two years of this going on, one day went to eat one bite of food, and mom & dad had
to rush me to the emergency. Well, after the tests they said I had a cyst the size of a gratefruit
on my liver and it would have to be taken out.
They referred me to a specialist, which I LOVE dearly. She ran some tests, and said would be a major
surgery of cutting from side to side to have it removed. She said, that with being major there were
very few doctors at the moment that would even consider doing it. I had insurance then.
Well, she talked me into just having it drained instead. I had to have like 3 scans and the day of the surgery
for the draining, they had to do another scan to make sure where to stick the needle to drain. Oh what
a relief, as soon as the needle went in and they started draining, I had NO MORE PAIN in the chest.
She did make a note of it, and said she has never seen such a thing. The cyst was soo big, that it
was closing off the opening to my stomach, so when I tried to eat, the food was not going down.
So basically now, I have a cyst that is like a blister that may fill up again, but the sad news is.
if that happens I have no clue, as I do not have health insurance now.
I could KICK myself in the butt for just not saying take it out. So, I do worry, but in reality not
much I can do after the fact. :( But the only good news about this whole thing is, if it does fill
back up, they have a doctor that specializes in this procedure now and will just be a small incision, instead
of being cut from side to side.
Once again, I am soo sorry Laurie. Sorry for making the story soo long..
I will keep you in my prayers & thoughts and hoping for the best possible outcome for not only you , but
your mom and son.
~Judy in MI~