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My 100lb Ovarian Cyst

**Warning Serious Post Ahead** Summer 2007 it was the summer id never forget. I almost lost my life. I was getting ready to graduate the 8th grade but something wasnt right. I felt it in my stomach. I kept getting pain and something the size of a football would buldge out of my stomach when i laid down. I never told anyone because i was scared. Until my school pretty much forced my parents to bring me to the doctors to prove i wasnt pregnant because it didnt "Look Good" that i was either pregnant or fat. Clearly i wasnt pregnant. But we went to the doctors did every test and nothing came up til my mom said "Do a xray to prove theres no alien inside her!!" Alien ? No. 100lb Tumor....yeah. The first doctor she told my parents to prepare a funeral because i wouldnt live through the first surgery. How could they prepare a funeral for their daughter? It broke them. It killed my mother to hear she might have to bury her daughter. But they did not give up! We went to Boston Children's Hospital to get a 2nd opinion, where we had found out luckily by the grace of god it was a liquid ovarian tumor and not a Solid Mass. I spent the 4th of July that summer in a hospital bed watching the fireworks over boston harbour trying to regain my strength. It was going to be a long recovery from there. Months of physical therapy, learning to walk again since i was in a hospital bed for months i lost motion of my legs. And lets not forget the lovely times i tried to eat but couldn't keep the food down so i had to retrain my stomach to handle food. It was a long and exhausting process. Where at the beginning i thought i would never live to see Prom, Graduation or even get married . But here it is 2017. 10 years later and happily married to the love of my life :) After the surgery, i was lucky to find out it wasn't a cancerous tumor, but since then ive had multiple ovarian cyst due to my Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)