Sarah Lundy discusses her complete molar pregnancy diagnosis.Photo:KSNT News/YouTube
KSNT News/YouTube
Speaking with local networkKSNT, Sarah Lundry revealed that what she thought was a 12-week pregnancy in 2020 turned out to be a complete molar pregnancy — a complication where, in her case, a tumor developed in her uterus without an embryo.
“They tried every source to be able to find the heartbeat, and they couldn’t find it,” Lundry said of her doctor’s discovery. “And I knew at that time that, I was like, this is not normal. At 12 weeks, you should be able to hear the heartbeat pretty immediately.”
The local Topeka woman told KSNT that she and her husband — who share 4-year-old Brooks — thought they were expecting another child in 2020. She even experienced some pregnancy symptoms, but the outlet notes that she eventually couldn’t eat and lost weight.
That’s when she discovered through a sonogram that she had the molar pregnancy, which results from a nonviable pregnancy. Lundry described her gestational trophoblastic neoplasia as “pretty rare,” andMayo Clinicnotes that a molar pregnancy can have serious complications and requires immediate treatment.
Lundry’s tumor eventually returned multiple times and turned into cancer, per KSNT, spreading to her lungs and uterus and requiring her to get a partial hysterectomy and chemotherapy.
“We decided to do a hysterectomy in June of [2022],” she told the outlet. “Complete chemotherapy, so doing two more rounds, I believe, finishing in August of 2022. And so I just hit my one year of being chemo and cancer-free.”
“I never expected to go through any of this,” Lundry later added. “Obviously. It’s not like anybody wakes up one day and thinks today, I’m going to beat cancer. I’m going to go through all these things.'”
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On Instagram in August,Lundry reflectedon her journey beating cancer, sharing candid images of her hair loss, procedures and other aspects of her fight. “I say this a lot on here, but I’ll repeat it until it’s grained into that beautiful cutie brain of yours. This life is so dang beautiful. Don’t take it for granted,” she wrote.
“Life was never promised to be easy. It’s hard. It hurts really badly sometimes, but the beauty in this life is more than the hard. Hang in there - because on the other side, you will be SO grateful you fought through.”
source: people.com
