on Tuesday. She will find out if she has cancer then. Her family - mother and sister - have both died from ovarian cancer. She has cysts on both her ovaries, and she is scared shitless. I felt so impotent when I went to visit her yesterday. Held her while she cried. I gave her a massage. I fixed her a chicken salad sandwich and a glass of milk.
All good thoughts are appreciated for my sweet friend Rita.
I had a hysto a couple of years ago. She’s in my thoughts and prayers. Good luck to her! You’re a kind friend to be there for her like you are.
I had my uterus and ovaries removed about four and a half years ago. I had fibroid tumors in my uterus and cysts on both ovaries, too. Mine turned out to be non-cancerous, and I hope your friend has the same outcome. They’re getting much better at finding and treating cancer and other diseases in the early stages now.
I hope that your friend heals quickly and uneventfully.
i also wish the best for your friend.
on a lighter note, how do you females live with those things?
it’d be like having a split personality…something that interrupts and bitches every month…
i dunno
maybe i’m making it out worse than it is, being on the other side of the aisle and all
Just as we can’t imagine walking around with stuff hanging between our legs!
It sucks actually, but you just learn to live with it.
I hope your friend is ok.
She’s in my prayers.
Ovarian cancer is one of the suckiest kinds of cancer because it gets diagnosed late. I pray one day we’ll develop a good early dection test for it like the pap smear.
Thanks for all your good wishes and prayers. I just talked to her, and she seems to be holding up ok. She’s pissed that she has to fast today! She wants to eat.
:: crossing my fingers and toes ::
Update:
She’s out of surgery and in recovery. Everything went well and she’s doing fine, the nurse told me.
