Ovarian Cancer Be Aware

I just learned that a neighbor that I was hoping and thinking about getting to know has "transitioned" (from this life to the next) as church people say - some church people.  I knew she was sick.  I saw her the day she came home from the hospital with the pink tub in hand.  She searched for something polite to say when I asked her how she was as she walked into her house holding on to her husband moving painfully slow.  I left her a poinsetta & a card at her door and began praying for her.  She moved here last summer from Florida with her husband and two young sons.  We'd always speak to one another in passing.  I planned to offer to babysit; take a welcome basket; even typed up a list of local places, etc.  So, today I met her mother-in-law by "chance" (not really).  I asked about Margot.  She looked at me as if I had said the wrong name and told me that she had been diagnosed with cancer in October and died in December. This is May.  I had been praying for someone who was already gone.  I offered to give the mother-in-law a "break" whenever she needed one.  She responded as if I might be an answer to one of her prayers.  She took my number and address.  I feel an odd sense of  something like loss.  I think about her boys mostly.  Leaving children motherless.  I want to be checked now.  The symptoms are so common.  I have some of them.  She seemed to be a homemaker like me, and was excited about possibly having someone to connect with close by, but when I learned she had boys and at a different school I was less excited and she seemed uninterested.  "Uninterested" was probably preoccupied.  I think about obedience and timing.  How I should have completed all the kind acts that God asked me to do before it was too late.  I have another chance, now.  She told me the boys call her Granny.  To be continued......


http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/ovarian-cancer/DS00293/DSECTION=symptoms

The symptoms of Ovarian Cancer:

Abdominal pressure, fullness, swelling or bloating

Pelvic discomfort or pain

Persistent indigestion, gas or nausea

Changes in bowel habits, such as constipation

Changes in bladder habits, including a frequent need to urinate

Loss of appetite or quickly feeling full

Increased abdominal girth or clothes fitting tighter around your waist

A persistent lack of energy

Low back pain