It was turning into a very busy Fall 2019 and I seemed to be getting tired more quickly, gaining many inches around my middle, but not gaining any weight, my abdomen was distended and hard, had trouble sleeping, and just “not hungry”! I decided to give our primary care physician a call and went in for a check-up to make sure all was okay. Her examination was thorough, and she was able to see a change in my appearance since I had made many frequent visits with my husband who was diagnosed with orthostatic hypotension and had had many falls resulting in visits to her office over the last few months. She sent me to get a CT Scan followed by a chest x-ray. I received a call the day after the Scans, telling me that Dr. Shuffleton needed to see me that day…I knew it was not good news for that was an unusually quick turnaround! When I went in the doctor did not pull any punches. She said, “The Scan and X-rays show several large masses in your abdomen and I want you to see an oncologist STAT as I suspect that you have metastatic cancer that has spread throughout your abdomen. Wow! That was a bit of a challenge, but I shared with her that in 1970, I had gone through quite a bout with cancer and at that time I had a two-year old and a three-year old at home.. Interestingly enough it is rare that a hydatidiform mole is malignant and even if it is the chances are great that it will not metathesize…however mine was malignant and after they removed it (leaving my uterus as per my instructions as we wanted more children) it had already metastasized.