
Help a Mom Battling Stage 3C Cancer
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My name is Courtney and I am fundraising for medical bills and living expenses. I am 43 years old with two kids and a husband of 25 years. I was recently unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage 3C High Grade Serous Carcinoma. The 5-year survival rate for my specific cancer is 41%. I likely won't make it to 50. I own my own lawn and pool service company, which now I am barely able to run due to the continued chemotherapy, which causes fatigue and pain on a regular basis.
In early January, ER doctors discovered a 10.5 cm mass in my abdomen. The OBGYN on call said he believed that it was just a fibroid cyst that was breaking up and causing the abdominal pain I'd been having for several days prior. The mass was treated as non-nefarious; no biopsy was ever done. After repeated ER visits related to the same symptoms and follow-up visits to the same OBGYN, he insisted that my repeated symptoms were unrelated to the mass and that we could do a hysterectomy (because hey, it couldn't hurt), which we scheduled. No biopsy was ever suggested or performed. During the hysterectomy on April 15th, Stage 3C High Grade Serous Ovarian Cancer was found, and the original large mass was actually a cancerous tumor. The cancer had already spread to both ovaries, uterus, and fallopian tubes, with multiple other cancerous growths and an additional tumor still there. It has also spread to my colon. I am currently having chemotherapy.
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Courtney adams
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Port Charlotte, FL