HOW MUCH CAN ONE WOMAN TAKE?
Solomon wasn’t dating anyone and didn’t have the money to harvest her eggs. “This was overwhelming for me,” she said. “I was in the beginning stages of my career at this point. I thought, What am I supposed to do with all this?” Solomon’s health would only become more complicated over the next 15 years. She began to have sinus issues, which would result in three sinus surgeries and a hormone for treatment that happened to fuel the growth of her fibroids. Her gall bladder ruptured—unbeknownst to her until she got to the hospital—which required surgery that was more complicated than usual because of the endometriosis and scar tissue from previous surgeries. “After the gall bladder surgery, they asked me how I didn’t know from the pain that my gall bladder had ruptured. They said if I’d waited any longer to go to the hospital, I would have died. I said, ‘Because I have stage IV endometriosis. I’m always in pain.’” In 2018, soon after one of her sinus surgeries, Solomon lost her peripheral vision on her right side. She saw a neurologist, who found a brain tumor. She chuckles today at the absurdity of one person having so many health issues at once, none of them brought on by her lifestyle or anything she’d done.
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