At Your Cervix

  • Cervical Cancer Blog Six aka Staging (originally written 12th March 2017)

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    Interrupting my regular scheduled blog post with a… well, a regular scheduled blog post. The next post I do will be entitled ‘How to Tell Friends and Family that You Have Cancer Whilst Making It Sound Like You Have Nothing More than a Common Cold so that You Keep Their Spirits Up While Somehow Simultaneously Convincing Yourself that You Have Cured Your Cancer via the Power of Positive Thinking Because the Brain Gets Weird…

  • Cervical Cancer Blog Three aka The Cervical Screening (originally written 27th January 2017)

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    I write this the night before I say goodbye to my cervix. Tomorrow it is being removed via a rather brilliant surgical piece of equipment and a rather brilliant surgical procedure. Whilst I may come across as flippant about this, please rest assured, I am not. I’m writing this to expel some nervous pre-op energy. I’m also writing it to expand upon how lucky I am, something that I have alluded to in previous posts.…

  • Cervical Blog Post Two aka The Biology Lesson (originally written 25th January 2017)

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    In my rather creatively titled ‘blog post one’ on cervical cancer I gave an explanation as to how stupid I have been. In said post I also mentioned that I was lucky. This may seem like an odd word for someone to describe herself as when she has just received a cancer diagnosis but I will elaborate on this in another post soon.

    I also mentioned that I would expand on cervical cancer symptoms because in my case…