Cancer survivor from uterine cancer survivor
When I was 25 years old I met a wonderful man. I was young and ready to start my family. Well all my life i had trouble with my periods but i figured i could see a doc. and get everything on track. Boy was I ever wrong. I started seeing my family doctor regularily. We done pap smears , tried birth control to regulate me and nothing worked. So for acouple years i put it out of my mind. We tried to get pregnant the natural way. I bet i took a pregnancy test every week. In the mean time these 2 years i started to bleed or spot almost every day. My family doc gave me pap test after pap test. all came back normal. I told her i was bleeding all the time and she kept putting me off.
Finally after bleeding everyday hard for over ayear i finally got her to refer me to og/gyn speciaist. so I got my appointment, 3 months later. I was so excited by this point i wanted to get this bleeding under control so i could start planning my baby. i went to see this new doctor in november 2001. he told me we would try some medicine to stop my bleeding. So he gave the meds, done a pap smear, biopsy and told me to come back in a month. So I tried the meds for about 6 days, still bleeding. Well on the seventh day i recived a call from the nurse,she told me the doctor had made some schedule changes and they could see me two weeks early. I started crying right away i knew something was wrong, i guess its womans intuition. That was the longest week of my life, up to that point anyway. So I go see the doc. As soon as he came in i knew i was in trouble, he came carrying a hysterectomy pamplet. Dont you hate those things all the woman on them are all smiles like their having the time of their life. So anyway they found cancer cells on my uterus biopsy. So on dec 6 2001 I had a d&c to see how far advanced i was. The d&c came back and confirmed the inevitable. Thank God thogh it was the slow growing kind. So dec. 14 2001 I went under the knife.
When the doctor got in he found that had progressed more than he had thought. The cancer had invaded 67% of my uterus, so they had to take out some lymph nodes. The cancer was in stage 3. So that meant radiation treatments. 6 weeks of them 5 days a week. I think the radiation came closer to killing me than the cancer. 6 weeks of 25 bowel movements a day, 3 or 4 jars of yogurt a day. thats all i could eat. Plus i have three new pretty tattoos that remind me of my wonderful experience. well i know this is a long story but the moral of my story is that now im almost 34 years old with no children but what i have been through has made me stronger. Sometimes i long for a child so bad and mothers day is the worst day of my life. I have lived almost 4 years since that horrible day. and i am glad im alive. I hope this story has made someone get a uterine biopsy pap smears do not always work. Thank you for taking the time to read this. God Bless you all.