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“I Unknowingly Had Cancer For Ten Years, Only Being Diagnosed After I Gave Birth To It. AMA”
There's never a good time to find out you have cancer. But to find out you’ve had it for a decade? That's the shocking reality Reddit user SentientDumpsterBaby had to accept when she learned her uterine cancer had gone undetected.
The uterus is part of the female reproductive system and the place where a fetus develops during pregnancy. In this case, however, what emerged was not a baby but a tumor — one she jokingly “delivered” and even christened with a name: Sarcomaleigh.
After the whole ordeal ended, the Redditor launched an "Ask Me Anything" and answered people's biggest questions about her experience.
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April Pickett 1 year ago
If your d.a. doctor was a male, change doctors. If your d.a. was female get her license noted with the hospital board and the medical board.
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Laserleader 1 year ago (edited)
The fact that horrible discharge is considered "par for the course" is terrifying as a medical norm for female problems, and people need to stop this reproductive "control" garbage that dismisses women as liars. My FIRST vaginal exam they refused to believe I was a virgin. Hurt so incredibly bad, and they didn't even care, but I was diagnosed with PCOS and everyday for 40 years until I had an ablasion, I suffered the effects of it until a doctor finally ALLOWED me to have one.
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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
No, you should definitely sue. We had one patient who sued and was awarded free healthcare for life at our hospital.
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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago
The doctor may have thought it was a prolapsed uterus or r****m. These are usually just pushed back in until the pt can get to surgery.
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murmelinpaiva 1 year ago
I am wondering if OP is a woman of color, since her medical care was abysmal, and it is well known that people of color do not receive very good medical care, especially in the south.
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Laura Lawson 1 year ago
How to tell someone lives in the US? When you almost die because male Southern Drs would rather fob you off & blame you plus you are too poor for a fùcking ambulance. How, just HOW are the people of this country not rioting in the streets?!? I live in Australia & my 30yo niece has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer. Within 4 weeks of feeling a lump, she was having chemo. It was a bit of a struggle to get the diagnosis because of her age, but she perservered. She'll have about a year of treatments. How much is it costing? Not a cent, because we have a decent healthcare system & a government that isn't trying to take over anyone's bodily autonomy.
Littlemiss 1 year ago
I had an exworkmate who got fobbed off years. Got told oh its just menopause etc, as her stomach got bigger and bigger. Eventually after about 5 years someone decided she needed a scan. Poof 10 pound benign tumor was removed.
Laura Gillette 1 year ago
When we have some flavor of revolution after this descent into authoritarianism (I don't think it will necessarily be a violent revolution, or a quick, definitive one with a clear beginning and end, but I do believe people are going to stop putting up with this b******t, one way or another), we are going to have a public healthcare system. It's likely going to at least start as "medicare for all", but there may eventually be free, government-run hospitals and clinics, too. It's going to be a top demand, top 3 at least, on the list of demands that the people will make when we remake the government. Taxes need to go toward healthcare; not ICE, not golden ballrooms, not bombs, not politicians' pockets. People can't live like this anymore.
Laura Lawson 1 year ago
How to tell someone lives in the US? When you almost die because male Southern Drs would rather fob you off & blame you plus you are too poor for a fùcking ambulance. How, just HOW are the people of this country not rioting in the streets?!? I live in Australia & my 30yo niece has recently been diagnosed with an aggressive breast cancer. Within 4 weeks of feeling a lump, she was having chemo. It was a bit of a struggle to get the diagnosis because of her age, but she perservered. She'll have about a year of treatments. How much is it costing? Not a cent, because we have a decent healthcare system & a government that isn't trying to take over anyone's bodily autonomy.
Littlemiss 1 year ago
I had an exworkmate who got fobbed off years. Got told oh its just menopause etc, as her stomach got bigger and bigger. Eventually after about 5 years someone decided she needed a scan. Poof 10 pound benign tumor was removed.
Laura Gillette 1 year ago
When we have some flavor of revolution after this descent into authoritarianism (I don't think it will necessarily be a violent revolution, or a quick, definitive one with a clear beginning and end, but I do believe people are going to stop putting up with this b******t, one way or another), we are going to have a public healthcare system. It's likely going to at least start as "medicare for all", but there may eventually be free, government-run hospitals and clinics, too. It's going to be a top demand, top 3 at least, on the list of demands that the people will make when we remake the government. Taxes need to go toward healthcare; not ICE, not golden ballrooms, not bombs, not politicians' pockets. People can't live like this anymore.
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