I have been diagnosed with a fibroid tumor in my uterus. It is 6 cm in size (a baseball is 9 cm). With a fibroid there is only 1% chance it could become cancerous. I am planning to have an utlrasound at the end of May to see if the size has rapidly increased. If it is rapidly increasing, then I would need surgery. But if it is not fast growing, I can maybe wait a year or two.
The problem is that I can't have surgery now because my grandmother, whom I take care of, would have to go to a nursing home. It has taken her 1 month to recover from a 2 day hospital stay. If it wasn't for me being diligent about getting her out of bed and walking, she would have never walked again. At the nursing home, they would not take the time to walk her since it takes a special way to walk her by standing behind her while holding her walker and then pushing her with your stomach. They would also leave her in her bed to poopoo since it takes 2 people to take her to the bathroom and the process is difficult. She would also get sicker because there are sick people there and the staff are not hygenic (when she went to 3 different hospitals before, the nurses were spreading poo poo all over new sheets and nightie when they diaper changed her. When she was at the hospital a month ago, I stayed with her all night so she wouldn't be scared alone (she does not know how to speak English). At the nursing home, they won't let anyone stay overnight. Basically, she would either die there or come out physically and mentally worse than having gone in.
So, please pray that my fibroid has not grown so that I can hold off on the surgery until Granny passes (she is 98 years old so she probably has a year or two longer).