# I am afraid I might be seriously ill

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-afraid-i-might-be-seriously-ill/578720>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 17, 2011, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-afraid-i-might-be-seriously-ill/578720 "2011-04-17T12:53:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-afraid-i-might-be-seriously-ill/578720/41 "2011-05-06T17:51:06Z")

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Yeah, my mom had one “the size of a grapefruit”, too. I wonder why a grapefruit is used for standard of reference. Why not, say, a softball? Nope, always a grapefruit… 😃

She ignored hers, by the way, and ended up with a bunch of ruptured cysts, requiring emergency surgery and a total hysterectomy when she was in her 30’s. I don’t suggest following her example.

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**Author:** ![classyladyhp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b5ac83/32.png) [@classyladyhp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/classyladyhp)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-afraid-i-might-be-seriously-ill/578720/42 "2011-05-06T17:56:15Z")

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Glad to hear it wasn’t cancer.

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