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One For The Girls

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First proper blog post and I'm going in deep with this one!  Today I am grateful for my health. It's only the 2nd of March and already this year I've had two x-rays, an MRI, two ultrasounds and a hysteroscopy! My second ultrasound was following on from my MRI which showed up a cyst on my right ovary. I don't know about anyone else but when I get a letter detailing something like that my flight or fight kicks in and I have to make a sharp run to the loo! You see my mum passed away at just 46 from bowel cancer, which was utterly devastating, but prior to that in her early 30s she had cervical cancer, which she survived. So when anything abnormal appears for me I assume that that's it; I'm next. Since losing my mum at 17 I have felt like I'm destined to die young too...horribly morbid I know, but I just can't shift it.  Luckily for me today the cyst showed to have disappeared on its own on the ultrasound which was a massive relief and right now I feel as li...