**A 65-Year-Old Woman Thought She Was Pregnant—The Doctor Froze When He Examined Her**
At sixty-five, Margaret Lewis thought she understood her body. She had lived through puberty, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause, and all the quiet changes that came with aging. Nothing about aches, fatigue, or strange sensations surprised her anymore—until the morning she woke up nauseous, dizzy, and inexplicably certain that something inside her was growing.
And yet, as the days passed, the feeling didn’t go away.
### The Symptoms She Couldn’t Ignore
It started subtly. Margaret noticed her clothes felt tighter around the waist. She blamed it on comfort eating and reduced exercise. Then came the fatigue—bone-deep exhaustion that sleep didn’t touch. She began waking up at night with nausea, sometimes rushing to the bathroom just in time.
Her appetite changed. Foods she loved suddenly repulsed her. Other days, she craved things she hadn’t eaten in decades.
Friends joked that it sounded like pregnancy symptoms. Margaret laughed along, brushing it off with humor. “At my age? That would make headlines,” she’d say.
But privately, the thought unsettled her.
The most disturbing change came one evening when she felt a flutter in her abdomen. A movement. Small, unmistakable, and terrifying.
She sat perfectly still on her couch, hand pressed to her stomach, waiting. It happened again.
