Chatting to a friend today who wrote a blog during part of her cancer treatment prompted me to come on and read my blog posts for the first time since I wrote them, this made me realise that I had not updated on here for over a year! It's terrible but I always found this blog a great outlet for when I was feeling low and needed to talk, it's a good sign that I have been absent for the last 12 months, I have been busy living and enjoying life!
I still have incurable cervical cancer but I finished palliative chemo 11 months ago and I am still stable.
I was told in May 2012 that the cancer had spread to the lymph nodes in my pelvis, pelvic aorta, chest and in my shoulder bone and spine. I was given 2 years if I was lucky but told it would be unlikely, I'm holding my own and determined to prove them wrong.
I just wanted to come on and reassure anyone who has been diagnosed with mets or recurrence for cervical cancer that the palliative chemo can help and prolong things, for me the lymph nodes have all resolved and the the bones show healing and could well have healed, for how long I will stay stable I have no idea but I am determined to exceed the 2 years!
My ileostomy reversal did not work and with finding out that the cancer was now incurable my consultant agreed to a colostomy as soon as my chemo finished. It has allowed me to live life again and I am no longer housebound!
My husband took 6 months off work and we have been spending quality time together and touring around Scotland in our caravan with the new addition to our life, our little puppy Angel who came to us in December 2012 and has completed our little family, she is an absolute joy.
Since writing my last blog post the support group I had been waiting to start for Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust has launched in Manchester and is a real success with such fabulous ladies attending and supporting one another. I am so proud of this and way back when I was envisaging how I imagined the group would look this is exactly how I imagined it.
We are raising awareness, raising funds and so so importantly supporting one another and being part of the group is so special, important and priceless.
Lou
