Living with Stage 2b Serous Carcinoma
Living with Stage 2b Serous Carcinoma
How I found out
My Best Guess is I have been living with Complications due to Ovarian cancer for nearly 8-10 years.
Over those last 8 years the symptoms were slowly getting worse.
The Warning signs just were not there.
I am 55, having been going through Menopause for about 8-10 years now, not realizing that Menopause symptoms
and ovarian cancer symptom are identical, it never
occurred to me, I had checkups (Except for the last 2 years) and no one caught it.
It didn't help that I didn't have health insurance and brushed it all off as typical menopause.
The risk is higher for Ovarian cancer with women that are 40+ and have had a partial hysterectomy.
My Story
It all started November 2nd 2025
Well, obviously it started way before that, but for me that was the true beginning to the event that changed the remainder of my entire life.
From what I remember as the Beginning:
Many years ago when I was about 9 years old (that’s when I first remember) I started getting migraines and at the time, headaches were apparently not common in children, Or so my mother told me. “Kids don’t get headaches”. Bless her heart, that’s just how doctors were, they stupidly thought kids really couldn’t possibly feel pain quite like that, so you guessed it, kids that complained of headaches or any other kinds of pains were labeled lazy. I don’t blame my parents at all for the dismissiveness toward my struggles, I mean seriously, what else would a parent do if their kids were constantly complaining about pain every time they were told to do a chore.  Although the migraines may not be all that significant to “THIS” story, it is a note of when I first started experiencing true pain, and learned to develop that “thick skin” and realize I had to “Deal” with it and move on. I digress.