“Is it cancer?”
The room became silent.
“We are concerned that it could be malignant.”
Thomas squeezed my hand.
I looked down at my stomach.
“And Liam?”
“The baby appears healthy.”
I started crying.
Not because I was thinking about myself.
Because I was thinking about what would happen to him if something happened to me.
Then a terrifying thought entered my mind.
“Doctor…”
“Yes?”
“If I hadn’t become pregnant, when would you have found this?”
He looked at me carefully.
“It’s impossible to know.”
“But could it have been found later?”
“Yes.”
“How much later?”
He didn’t answer directly.
“Kidney masses can sometimes remain silent for a long time.”
I understood.
Something could have been growing inside me without pain, without symptoms, without warning.
And I might never have known.
At least not until it was too late.
Thomas looked at me.
Neither of us said anything.
But we were both thinking the same thing.
