At Your Cervix

  • Cervical Cancer Blog Twelve aka Pelvic EUA and Lymphadectomy Part One

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    Back in January I had two operations ten days apart, one of which I call ‘The Little Op’ and the other ‘The Big Op.’

    I am choosing to write about both and in doing so I am going to reveal an awful lot of undignified, personal information about myself in the hopes that someone who reads this finds some comfort or knowledge in a shared experience.

    The second hope is that it makes people think about…

  • Cervical Cancer Blog One (originally written 22nd January 2017)

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    Let’s start with this. I have brown hair, brown eyes and cervical cancer. Amongst other many descriptions of me, I am also these two things: –

    • Stupid
    • Lucky

    Before I go on I just want you to know that you can also think these of me and I would understand it. Really, I would. So, think it, digest it, but just don’t say it to me. If there is anything at all I have learnt in the past few weeks is that I don…

  • Cervical Cancer Blog Post Four aka The Colposcopy (originally written 21st February 2017)

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    It’s been a while since I last posted in my blog so apologies if you were reading these posts and were wanting more! Just over three weeks ago, I was getting ready to go in to have The Big Op and was singing ‘bye bye Miss American Pie’ except in this case Miss American Pie was my cervix.

    Well I can say that I am now sans-cervix. Well done me and the entire surgical team. Well mainly ‘well done surgical…

  • Cervical Cancer Blog Eight aka Diagnostic Imaging (originally written 1st April)

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    “Gosh, you know, I would just LOVE to stay completely motionless for twenty to thirty minutes whilst being held inside a long, noisy tube as it scans for me the spread of the cancer I have just been diagnosed with. Even better if I get to do it twice in one week!”

    Said absolutely no one in the history of humankind, EVER.

    Welcome to Diagnostic Imaging week!

    Four days after my diagnosis I received a call from…

  • Cervical Cancer Blog Eighteen aka Cervical Cancer Prevention Week 2018

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    I’m dashing through this blog post on account of me realising that it is February and my good intention to update this blog more regularly has already failed. No, hold on. We don’t say failed we say…

    success delayed

    I have also been channelling this guy: –

    white rabbit

    No, not on account of my adorable fluffy cuteness but on the fact that I simply CANNOT be punctual.

    The reason I am dashing through this post is because…