HOW MUCH CAN ONE WOMAN TAKE?
“It was like, ‘Oh by the way, you have a brain tumor, too,’” she said.
At this time, she also revisited her fertility issue since she’d married in 2014. A clinic told her she had a year to harvest her eggs. “We had just built a house and had no money to harvest and store my eggs,” Solomon said. “Concurrently, I was dealing with endometriosis, a brain tumor, and sinus issues. That’s when I knew I wasn’t going to be able to have kids. It was horrible. Infertility sucks.” In 2019, with her fibroids growing and now diagnosed with adenomyosis, she had a hysterectomy. It was supposed to be an outpatient surgery. “They botched it,” Solomon said. “They were supposed to cut my fallopian tubes, but the tubes had moved up so high because of the endometriosis that they cut my ureter instead. It ended up being an eight-hour surgery to try to fix the ureter. The fix didn’t work as planned. It caused significant health issues for the next year and a half, including three bouts with sepsis that nearly killed Solomon. She also had to have two more unsuccessful corrective surgeries to stabilize her bladder and kidney due to the botched hysterectomy in 2020, and then her brain surgery in 2021—everything complicated by Covid restrictions.
“It was like, ‘Oh by the way, you have a brain tumor, too,’” she said.
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