penny4yourthoughts

  • Five months after the last treatment.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I have Endometrium Cancer,  Papillary Serous with clear cells Grade 111C, or should I say I was diagnosed with it, had the op, the chemo treatments, the radio therapy (two cycles of it) and have already had one 'all clear' (from the first scan).

    In a few weeks I'll be having my second scan - and hope and presume I'll be OK.

    I'm feeling very well. And it feels extraordinary. (?)

    And this is why I…

  • Happy after my scan! All Clear

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    It only seems right to share the good news, doesn't it? 

    It's been tough until now, but suddenly, since I got the results of my first scan  two days ago, which were all OK, I feel such great happiness. It feels so wonderful.

    Exactly this time last year, it was so different. I'd been diagnosed with an advanced stage of Endometrium Cancer .  I had my op a month later and was diagnosed with Grade 111C (of an…

  • Reflecting back on it all.

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I finished chemo therapy in June.( I've got an endometrial cancer at Grade 111C - it had spread from the womb area to the pelvic and aoarta lymph nodes).

    Tomorrow I'll have my very last Radio Therapy treatment appointment.

    I've had RT every day since August 5th 2009 (apart from a one week break). 

    I can't wait.  I'm so excited. It will all be over soon.

    The scar and the cancer damage was too extensive…

  • Inching out of a depression

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Just three weeks away from finishing all the treatments and I went under completely. Seeing the end of the long haul of operation and treatments  insight I felt truly depressed about the probabilty of my cancer returning (I have an endometrial cancer Grade 111C) and of dying within the next few years. 

    I'd been reading through the internet descriptions of my cancer and, it hit me, without denial attached, just how precarious…

  • Endometriam Cancer Grade 111C; coping with low survival rate info

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Wondering how women with Papillary Serous Adencarcinoma with clear cells Grade 111C cope with the poor survival rate they read about when they look it up on the internet?  At the moment it seems there's a 33% chance of survival for us.  Is this your reading? Has it improved? Would like to know more!

    I tend to not automatically believe I will be the lucky 1 in 3.  What kind  of presumtious thinking is this:

    "Oh of…