Hi all,
i am 42 and just after Christmas i suddenly felt very bloated, i have been told by a consultant that i have a mass of around 13cm on my ovary and that its ovarian cancer and need to wait for the hospital to get in touch to discuss next steps.
i feel completely lost, i have no other symptoms and i dont know how i will cope with the road ahead. i am constantly googling different things that pop into my head and wondering if i have missed things that could have been signs before. Most days i feel fine other than uncomfortable from the fluid on my abdomen, which i have convinced myself that this fluid means its at an advanced stage.
i dont really know what to do with myself, it doesn't feel right to just carry on doing my normal daily life including work but you dont really have any choice. if i dont do my normal life then i will left to just mope around.
I totally identify with this. I spent the first week going over and over signs, possible signs, as I had had a number of doc appointments over the phone as well as face to face over the last year. A lot of what ifs, I should have done this, why didn’t they do this, who and what to blame. I would check with someone at working, as I discovered at my appointment last week that you need to shield before op, if having one and you can’t have op for eight weeks if you get COVID.
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