Well, I have to share this with someone. Since you opened this thread, you’re it.
My wife had been feeling pretty sick starting about a year ago, culminating with her being sent straight to the ER from a doctor’s checkup last December with severe anemia. That turned out to be a symptom of some other problems she was having. Over the months, it’s been anywhere between uterine fibroids or lymphoma cancer in the uterus. She’s been in and out of the hospital for transfusions, had 2 surgical procedures, and had medication to control the bleeding.
The best they could come up with, after sending samples to 3 expert hospitals, was that 2 of them thought it wasn’t cancer, but 1 thought it could still be. Even the 2 that thought it wasn’t, knew that there was some unidentified problem.
Finally, last week, this culminated in a hysterectomy for my wife. She’s been recovering nicely from the surgery, though, and feels a lot better. Today she saw the doctor, who said she was healing nicely, and shared the pathology reports. No cancer! (Does dorky “cabbage patch” dance while chanting “nocancer! nocancer! nocan-can-can-cancer!”)
I can only begin to expressed how relieved we all are. And even though it’s not quite 2 weeks after the surgery, she’s already looking and acting more energetic than, say, the entire months of January and February.
Well, partly it did turn out to be uterine fibroids. Many of them, grown (in my wife’s words, not her doctor’s) “berserk”. In addition, one or more of them had become infected, leading to a bleeding condition that wouldn’t heal.
One other thing that had made this hard for her was that her sister had died of a lymphoma.
