hi everyone,
i was diagnosed 10th may with cervical cancer,all
this coming from my first smear test 2 days b4 my 25th birthday.
abnormal
cells (severe dyskaryosis) were found and i was sent for a
colposcopy.here she found the area affected would be too painful,and too
large for her to do minor biopsies,as it was on the vaginal wall,so i
was sent for the lletz treatment under genereal anaesthetic.
i
recovered fine from this,was too busy wanting to eat something that i
was allowed home a couple of hours later.5 ridiculous weeks of waiting
then i get a phone call telling me i had to go back in and have a knife
cone biopsy.Through all this i was never actually seen by the consultant
who was doing my treatments,i was seen by one of god knows how many of
his team,just telling me all text book information.But always saying the
cells were not cancer,they were pre cancerous!!!!
i wasn't too
worried about the operation thinking it would just be the same as
before,i was wrong.Once again i wasn't seen by the consultant,another
different member was sent to see me.
Waking up from this was like
being kicked in the guts with a sledge hammer,i dont know if i had a
bad reaction to the anaesthetic or what but it was definately painful,i
was given morphine which i dunno what all the hype was about it didnt
clear me of pain.plus could i get anymore.....oh yeah had a reaction to
the morphine was covered in a rash!!lol,i laugh now!!
what was
more scary was the sight of a drip and catheter,noone had told me that i
would need these,the fact that now knowin i would not be going home i
was a mess.once again my consultant was not seen,and it was actually the
nurses that informed me more,also telling me i had packing also to stop
the bleeding, which i had no idea about,thought that was just the
catheter.
on mon i had to go finally meet the consultant,3 weeks
after the 2nd op,for him to tell me i had cervical cancer,something i
never prepared myself for hearing as was always told "pre"cancerous
cells.Apparently he has been meeting other specialists to discuss my
options as i am a bit of a dilemma,25 yrs old (a baby as he called
me),and no children (something i've always wanted with my partner but
wanted to do everything the right way,we just bought our 1st home
together and are in the middle of doing it up)
a hysterectomy is
the ideal treatment,(im actually filling up now just writing it),however
a trachelectomy has been offered,i have been told this isn't a very
common procedure but if anyone has any info or experience,i would really
love to hear from you.
