July 2020 i gave birth to my first baby via a planned c-section while they handed me my son i was greeted with the news of sorry but we have to wait to more surgeons come across as we need to remove your appendix.
As anyone could image i was laying on the operating table overwhelmed and confused to what was going on as I just become a new mum. As the panic about the staff in room started as it was taking so long for the surgeons to come across from the main hospital to the maternity hospital i was in. Eventually they arrived and took my appendix and told me there was a cyts on my appendix that was leaking. They had notice this jelly substance when they made the incision when deriving my baby.
2 days later as I prepare to live hospital they surgeon come up to my room to meet me to tell me the reasons behind having to remove the appendix and they would be sending it off for more test and I would more likely have to have routine ct scan that was it.
2 weeks later arrive I receive a phone call could you come up tomorrow your consultant needs to speak to you to explain better about the removal of your appendix. Following day my world was turned upside down I was told the cyst that they initially found turned out to be a tumour that had been leaking mucous (Jelly). I was told I had ( Low Grade LAMN ) I would need blood test, CT Scans, Colonoscopy. I was told I would need surgery as this rare cancer form disease is so rare that it would be the safest option and I would be refered to a specalist hospital in the UK. Over the next 4 months I under went all the test everything came back good and clear.
As my baby marked the 6month mark I got the letter id a video link appointment with The Christie Hospital in Manchester as Covid 19 and lockdows where in place all over the UK. Video link was the safest option atm. So the day off my consultant with The Christie Hopsital took place I was told my last ct scan had showed growth like cyst on my ovaries! The dread question do you want more children as a young new mum my answer was maybe id like to be able to have the option. So mu consultant told me id developed (PMP) and would need surgery to have my Greater and lesser omentum (fatty apron that hangs between your abdominal wall and your organs – not needed however they often find mucin or cells in this area), falciform ligament & ligament teres (structures up around the liver gall bladder, and either one or both of your ovaries. At the time of the surgery they would look around all of your abdomen and pelvis – up around your diaphragms, around your liver, look at your bowel and make sure there were no pockets of mucin or disease and if there is they will remove it. They will also check around where your appendix was and check the stump of the appendix and remove that if that looks/feels abnormal. After that they will put heated chemotherapy directly into your abdomen for around 90 minutes.
Now atm I'm awaiting to go and possibly get my eggs froze so I have a chance to have more children. Then I will hopefully been sent to Manchester for my surgery. Recovering time is anywhere from 6 -12 weeks as they have told me. But I've read it can take a full year before you feel yourself again.
