I didn’t cheat cancer. It found me again

On January 29, 2019, after a major surgery I’ll discuss in detail later, I was officially diagnosed with Stage III ovarian cancer. Some have been brave enough to ask me “what were your symptoms?” but even for those who haven’t, I know they’re curious. It’s human nature.

Never in a million years did I think ANY of my symptoms could be ovarian cancer. That’s the thing about ovarian cancer, and why it’s often referred to as “the silent killer”: the symptoms are mostly what all women experience at one time or another. Bloating, pelvic pain, constipation. That’s what Periods feels like. That’s what peri-menopause feels like. That’s what life, as a woman my age, feels like.

Not to mention, the pain in my Right Upper Quadrant, which is nowhere near ovaries. But I’ll get to that soon.