Doctors are not always right – Caroline ’ s story

My experience began with a blood test as I was post menopause and started bleeding. The blood test had a high ca125 reading, never heard of this before but could be an indicator of ovarian cancer I was told. This was Xmas eve. Went for different scans, tests and 3 months of waiting and was told I had a 16cm mass on ovary. I couldn’t tell if cancer or not until come out. The shock took my breath away. No other symptoms,I always thought I was a strong woman but this floored me, even had to take time off work as it filled my head every waking moment. This seen me booked in for a total hysterectomy, vertical incision in order to get the mass out in one go. Hysterectomy booked for 25th March.3 weeks from when told had mass. Went back to work and tried !! To forget about it, told very few people as I felt guilty? About me having possible cancer! The run up to op was one of the most stressful moments of my life. I was petrified, even though surgeon, friends, family said I would be ok it was not them this was happening to Day of op was like I was having an out of body experience and I was quite calm, I had already spoken to anaesthetist and informed him my greatest fear was going under and being sick afterwards, he advised I could hold the mask over my face myself and to have an epidural as well as general so I would not need morphine after, with the hope would be less sick. I would highly recommend this as was only sick once and was pain free for two days! I was still extremely an...
Source: The Hysterectomy Association - Category: OBGYN Authors: Tags: Health cancer hysterectomy stories Source Type: news