In 2013 my sister decided to lose some weight because everyone was asking her if she was pregnant. She had a belly that looked like she was 9 months pregnant, and people would say, ‘Oh when are you due?’ and she’d say, ‘I already had her… eight years ago…’ Or if they asked her, ‘Are you expecting?’ she would say, ‘Yes, I’m expecting to lose 100 lbs. by next year.’ She was motivated to join a “Couch to 5K” group and after a month she had started to see some success by losing a good 20 lbs. or so. However, she started having some major pain in her lower stomach area. She really couldn’t tell where the pain was coming from exactly, but it was enough for her to not be able to stand up straight; she was literally doubled over in pain. It was serious enough for her to go to the emergency room. The emergency room checked her out and sent her home, but she was still in pain, and it would not subside. She went back to a different hospital, and they treated her like she was faking to try to get pain meds. The on-call Doctor told her that she was going to have to be quiet and not moan so loud that she was scaring the other patients. She said, ‘Well, let me kick you in your balls and then you tell me how bad that hurts and if it hurts enough to moan out loud.” Well, he left and gave her case over to another attending physician… lol
The new Doctor ordered a CT scan to see if they could tell where the pain was coming from, and he came back in and said that she had a mass as big as a basketball in her stomach. So, they did an ultrasound, and they could see that the mass was tied around her left ovary. So, it looked like, when she lost that weight, something shifted, and the mass started squeezing the ovary it was sitting on and wrapped around it and was pulling on it. This is where the pain was coming from all of a sudden. They said that the mass had been growing and filling with blood over a long period of time and was just getting bigger and bigger. She said, ‘Well, I thought I was just getting fatter and fatter.’ They put her in a room and scheduled a surgery as soon as they could and when they took it out, they put it in the pan and took a picture of her little Blood Baby… they sent a piece of it off to the Oncologist to see if it was cancerous but thank the Lord it came back benign. They did have to take the left ovary out as it was damaged so bad but they left in her right ovary so it would not push her into menopause.
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