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UPDATE:
I just came back from having the results of all the extra blood tests and MRI I had last week, I am taking a deep breath to write this and then I will go back to curl in a ball in my bed as I am deeply heartbroken. The cyst is a dermoid cyst that is made of hair, debris and teeth, this means that a laparoscopy won't be an option and I need open surgery as they need to remove it in one piece, this means a much longer recovery time and hospital stay, as well as much higher price, I can barely breath, thinking about that horrible thing growing inside me. It has destroyed my ovary so they will have to remove that and my fallopian tube as well with it. The cost of this surgery is now £6590 (plus the MRI and consultation which was already funded with your incredible generosity), they had quoted me 3700-4100 over the phone before I was seen so this is another bomb dropped on me after knowing what it is is bad enough. I have saved the date of the 20th of August and pray that I can come up with the rest of the funds for this a week before as per their request. I feel sick, I wish I had known this was happening months before and had been able to not go through the impact this surgery is going to have on me. I just have no words :(
Hi Everyone,
This is really difficult for me to start, but a lot of my friends have insisted I made a gofundme to help with my situation.
Around nearly 3 months ago I noticed my tummy was getting more and more bloated by the day, I am coeliac and avoid trigger foods at all costs but because it's common to get this often even with cross contamination I assumed it was that, that I became intolerant to a new food item I hadn't pinpointed yet.
Then this massive lump started coming out in the mornings (with full bladder) so big and my belly felt really tight. I thought it would go away but it didn't, I felt it kept growing and I kept getting pain and my organs surrounding it are disturbed constantly. I decided to take the plunge and face the doctors on the 6th of July. They agreed that it wasn't something to be taken lightly so they ordered an urgent ultrasound to find out what it was.
2 weeks went on and I hadn't even received a letter with the appointment for this scan, after chasing, apparently someone of the higher range on my GP practice decided it was no urgent matter so it would take many weeks. I decided to get an ultrasound through a clinic that is in a town next to mine as it was only £99 and find out what was once and for all.
I have a 121mm mass growth on my left ovary that keeps growing. They can't tell yet if it's a cyst filled with liquid, or an endometrioma or a dermoid cyst so I had to go back to the GP with the results a week after as further imaging was required. They took my blood that day also.
The GP put me on fast track because of the size and because they need to rule out cancer. 2 weeks after the GP Appointment I got finally the Gynecology hospital appointment and that takes me to today. They were saying that I need an MRI (which would take weeks) to find out what kind of cyst which will tell them what kind of operation I need. (if laparoscopy, or laparotomy and if I will be able to keep my ovary or not). Through the NHS this could take months, and I already been off work for one, since I model corsetry I can't cinch at the moment as it would be far too painful, and so my career is really suffering.
I asked if I could get all this done before as I need to get back to work as I cannot be off duty for months, and so private care was suggested, luckily a doctor that works at the private hospital and part time for the NHS was there and so I booked my MRI in 2 days which will cost £722 (he told me it would be around 500 but apparently they estimate low...). Each consultation after costs £150 and the operation will roughly cost £3700-£4100 (depending of which method surgery it is, if one or the other).
This is a real urgent situation for me because I am in so much pain. I can't work, if I eat anything I am sick because its pushing on my other organs, and I have to wake several times a night because as soon as there's liquid on my bladder everything is really uncomfortable and wakes me up with the big lump on my abdomen. It's interesting how you never really know what something foreign inside your body is like until you get something quite large. If I lie on my stomach it feels like some kind of balloon is inside and it doesn't feel like is part of me. I need this beast gone from my body and unfortunately it's going to cost so much. I am trying to swallow my pride, and ask for your help, it would help enormously and it would mean I can get back to living a normal life.
These type of cysts can also burst at any time (literally I am doing everything I can not to disturb it) and if it did, I could go septic or fall into a coma which is why I did stop working as soon as I found out what this was. I'm literally trying to put all my strength to not think about it or the worst outcome because it's incredibly heart breaking and soul destroying after we nearly lost our home last year and took me selling everything I possibly could to get a mortgage deposit without using sites like this, but this is different because it's my health.
Any donations would help enormously. I been doing calendar preorders in the last few days as I knew this would happen and between that and help from some really good friends I met through this life I been able to raise about 1/3rd of the treatment fees.
Please share this with anyone that would be willing to help.
If you rather buy a calendar or prints so you can get something in return this also helps a lot, my online shop is http://threnodyinvelvet.bigcartel.com
Thank you all so much, no amount is too small <3
I just came back from having the results of all the extra blood tests and MRI I had last week, I am taking a deep breath to write this and then I will go back to curl in a ball in my bed as I am deeply heartbroken. The cyst is a dermoid cyst that is made of hair, debris and teeth, this means that a laparoscopy won't be an option and I need open surgery as they need to remove it in one piece, this means a much longer recovery time and hospital stay, as well as much higher price, I can barely breath, thinking about that horrible thing growing inside me. It has destroyed my ovary so they will have to remove that and my fallopian tube as well with it. The cost of this surgery is now £6590 (plus the MRI and consultation which was already funded with your incredible generosity), they had quoted me 3700-4100 over the phone before I was seen so this is another bomb dropped on me after knowing what it is is bad enough. I have saved the date of the 20th of August and pray that I can come up with the rest of the funds for this a week before as per their request. I feel sick, I wish I had known this was happening months before and had been able to not go through the impact this surgery is going to have on me. I just have no words :(
Hi Everyone,
This is really difficult for me to start, but a lot of my friends have insisted I made a gofundme to help with my situation.
Around nearly 3 months ago I noticed my tummy was getting more and more bloated by the day, I am coeliac and avoid trigger foods at all costs but because it's common to get this often even with cross contamination I assumed it was that, that I became intolerant to a new food item I hadn't pinpointed yet.
Then this massive lump started coming out in the mornings (with full bladder) so big and my belly felt really tight. I thought it would go away but it didn't, I felt it kept growing and I kept getting pain and my organs surrounding it are disturbed constantly. I decided to take the plunge and face the doctors on the 6th of July. They agreed that it wasn't something to be taken lightly so they ordered an urgent ultrasound to find out what it was.
2 weeks went on and I hadn't even received a letter with the appointment for this scan, after chasing, apparently someone of the higher range on my GP practice decided it was no urgent matter so it would take many weeks. I decided to get an ultrasound through a clinic that is in a town next to mine as it was only £99 and find out what was once and for all.
I have a 121mm mass growth on my left ovary that keeps growing. They can't tell yet if it's a cyst filled with liquid, or an endometrioma or a dermoid cyst so I had to go back to the GP with the results a week after as further imaging was required. They took my blood that day also.
The GP put me on fast track because of the size and because they need to rule out cancer. 2 weeks after the GP Appointment I got finally the Gynecology hospital appointment and that takes me to today. They were saying that I need an MRI (which would take weeks) to find out what kind of cyst which will tell them what kind of operation I need. (if laparoscopy, or laparotomy and if I will be able to keep my ovary or not). Through the NHS this could take months, and I already been off work for one, since I model corsetry I can't cinch at the moment as it would be far too painful, and so my career is really suffering.
I asked if I could get all this done before as I need to get back to work as I cannot be off duty for months, and so private care was suggested, luckily a doctor that works at the private hospital and part time for the NHS was there and so I booked my MRI in 2 days which will cost £722 (he told me it would be around 500 but apparently they estimate low...). Each consultation after costs £150 and the operation will roughly cost £3700-£4100 (depending of which method surgery it is, if one or the other).
This is a real urgent situation for me because I am in so much pain. I can't work, if I eat anything I am sick because its pushing on my other organs, and I have to wake several times a night because as soon as there's liquid on my bladder everything is really uncomfortable and wakes me up with the big lump on my abdomen. It's interesting how you never really know what something foreign inside your body is like until you get something quite large. If I lie on my stomach it feels like some kind of balloon is inside and it doesn't feel like is part of me. I need this beast gone from my body and unfortunately it's going to cost so much. I am trying to swallow my pride, and ask for your help, it would help enormously and it would mean I can get back to living a normal life.
These type of cysts can also burst at any time (literally I am doing everything I can not to disturb it) and if it did, I could go septic or fall into a coma which is why I did stop working as soon as I found out what this was. I'm literally trying to put all my strength to not think about it or the worst outcome because it's incredibly heart breaking and soul destroying after we nearly lost our home last year and took me selling everything I possibly could to get a mortgage deposit without using sites like this, but this is different because it's my health.
Any donations would help enormously. I been doing calendar preorders in the last few days as I knew this would happen and between that and help from some really good friends I met through this life I been able to raise about 1/3rd of the treatment fees.
Please share this with anyone that would be willing to help.
If you rather buy a calendar or prints so you can get something in return this also helps a lot, my online shop is http://threnodyinvelvet.bigcartel.com
Thank you all so much, no amount is too small <3
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Patricia Belda Martinez
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