Cantaloupe

Note to self - When a doctor tells you that something is impressive and it's not weight loss, the thing he is talking about is not usually a good thing.

A few weeks ago I went to my ob/gyn for a routine 6 week post partum check up.  I had been there 4 weeks earlier, everything was ok and I was sent on my merry way.  In the four weeks between visits I had noticed that my weight loss was extremely different from my first pregnancy.  When I had Adelaide my stomach almost immediately deflated so to speak.  After a few weeks of complaining that I still looked pregnant after P and feeling something hard in my stomach everyone kept telling me that there was nothing to worry about and the second baby is harder on the body.

We are now at my 6 week visit, I expect the doc to send me on my merry way again, but this checkup was a little different.  When the doctor was checking my uterus size he discovered what he thought was an enlarged uterus, after an ultrasound he found that his original thought wasn't the case.  Yet another doctor visit where I am alone and I get bad news that I only catch half of the information because my mind and ears have gone into shock.  These are the words I remember hearing...cyst the size of cantaloupe, impressive, left ovary, don't know if it's cancer yet, will need surgery, may have to remove the left ovary.

Of course it's now 11:30, I need to pick A up from school at noon, I forgot my cell phone at home and I really need to tell someone about this.  So I had to call Grant from the doctors office to ask him to come home without having a break down in the middle of the docs office.  I managed not to cry at home while A was awake because it would have sent her into a tailspin.

Long story short, I had to wait a week and a half for a follow up exam and during that time thank heavens the cyst ruptured on it's own and I did not have surgery.  The whole event did make me scared and appreciative for what I have.  I've spent the last three years worrying about A's health and never did it occur to me that eventually I might have a health concern as well.