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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I’ve posted a lot on here about meds and things. Now I’m getting hit with something I’m having trouble dealing with. My wife went to her doctor because her left leg was swollen. They did a few tests and immediately admitted her to the hospital. They gave her blood thinners to dissolve the clot. I found out later that the clot could have killed her if it had traveled to her brain or heart. At the hospital they did some routine x rays and found out that she has a 16" tumor on one of her ovaries. The surgery to remove the tumor is tomorrow at 5pm. If the tumor is non cancerous, they will have to remove 1 ovary. If it is cancer, they say they will have to do a complete hysterectomy. What do I do if I lose my wife? Chances are she will never be able to have children again. It makes me think a lot about the petty things that I have posted on here. I just hope that God sees it fit for her to live a full life. I would be lost without her. Please pray for her if you care to. Her name is Sherry. Hi Medmix, I’m so sorry about your wife.  I am going through something similar myself, my mother has been diagnosed with inoperable, rare and fastly growing cancer of the liver and the spleen.  All this on the tail of a major breakdown – I’d been hospitalized involuntarily for something like 3 weeks for mental stuff. I have voices in addition to anxiety and panic and depression.  I’ve never been sicker mentally, and now this is happening to my mom who I am close to (I live with her in fact).  I’m so sorry about your wife, and believe me I DO know how scary it is.  I’m drinking for the first time in months and months tonight trying to drown out the feelings.  – I hope you get some good news soon about your wife, ovarian cancer is very bad, but as it is with anything like that, there are exeptions to the rule, and maybe your wife will be one of them.  I hope things can turn around for you. Sara    ^..^< Piggy backing on Sara here. Medmix and dearest Sara, I truly hope that both of you get some kind of turn around good news.  I know how hard it is, for you, Sara, and I can only imagine what it would be like if my spouse were ill, Medmix.  (Please give Sherry your strength, as well of all of ours too)! My deepest prayers go out to the both of you in this time of need.

P.S. for Medmix… I had a tumor in my left ovary back in ‘95 (I’m 41 now).  They went in (like a c-section) and ended up taking my entire ovary because the tumor was the size of a grapefruit.  I was a size 2 back then, and I didn’t even know it!! Anyway, I recovered 100% and the tumor was non-cancerous. —