Well my life seems to have been thrown into turmoil in the last 3 months, Mum was diagnosed with small cell lung cancer in March, she had chemo, 4 doses, lost ALL her hair, and with it ALL her confidence.
Her chemo has now finished, unfortunately the prognosis is the same .....approx 6-8 weeks !!! how do I cope with that? My daughter (51/2 months pregnant) is in bits at the thought that her beautiful grandmother may never get to see her great granddaughter.
On top of all this, I went to the gp due to feeling poorly, tired, bloated, and with lots of abdo / pelvic pain, I thought the stress had probably caused IBS or something similar, the doc ordered abdo scan and blood tests.
Blood test result revealed raised CA125, whilst the scan revealed a mass of 8cm x 6cm on my right ovary and free fluid surrounding the ovary!!!!
The GP sat me down and said 'you may have ovarian cancer, we need to do some further tests'... Talk about shock, it never ever crossed my mind that I may have this, I thought at the very worst IBS!
Any way more blood tests today and another scan on 15th July!!! is it normal to have to wait 6 weeks between scans? My periods too are all over the place and seem to have changed in the last few months, some heavier than ever some lighter some but a lot more often up to three a month ! is this usual with OC?
Sorry to ramble but just so stressed and no real answers right now, Also very worried about my daughter and how she's going to cope with everything.
Jules.
