I do not have a terminal illness, but this is a prime thread to let people know to go to the Dr EVERY year for all your exams, because I didn't and now I'm paying for it.
LADIES. EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU ARE FINE, IT'S IMPERATIVE TO GO TO YOUR OBGYN EVERY SINGLE YEAR. I thought I was fine, had no symptoms, but I wasn't fine.
I thought I was getting a little extra fat around my gut last spring. No biggie. Then I laid on my stomach one day, which I NEVER do, and I felt like I was laying on a fucking bocce ball. I started feeling it and it was a hard mass, like a softball.
I am now in the 3rd week post op from having a total hysterectomy. They removed my watermelon sized uterus that weighed 8.6 lbs. I had 14 large fibroid tumors ranging in size from golfballs to a couple of "baby head" sized ones...the Drs said.