I have no idea why they didn't do a hysterectomy, it
seemd strange to me too. I guess they figured that
with all the internal and external radiation and chemo
they could wipe it out. Seemd weird to me too at the
time that they did not do that. Barb Gibson
>
--- Mary Anne <emmy@...> wrote:
> Welcome. It's not a very active list, but we're all
> hear listening when
> needed. Congrats on being good for over a year!
> Big step to get past that
> year mark. I'm now over five years cancer free!
>
> I guess my question is why didn't they do a
> hysterectomy? It would make
> sense to me (at age 51) that surgery would be the
> first course of treatment.
>
> Mary Anne
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barbara Gibson [mailto:m9v4kh6t@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 9:01 PM
> To: Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Cervical-Cancer] New Member from Canada
>
>
> Hi there my name is Barb Gibson I'm almost 51 years
> old (birthday is
> in August)and I live in Vancouver, British Columbia
> Canada I'm 1 year
> and 1 month in remission from cervical cancer.
> I had 5 weeks of chemo and 8 weeks of regular
> radiation,then the
> doctors decided to give me internal radiation which
> involved a
> operation room, tubes stuck up me, then a loney 18
> hours in a
> isolated room by myself while little radiated balls
> roamed around the
> tubes stuck inside me and zapped the cancer. You
> werre only allowed
> to lay on your left or right side and if you wanted
> to change
> postitions you had to call the nurse to help so you
> would not
> accidently knock the tubes out which were bound to
> your stomach.
> Now I have sevre heavy scarring on my cervix due to
> the radiation and
> have to use dialators to keep the area open for exam
> which is a pain.
> I'm also on Climara 50 (Estradiol 17B)patches which
> I change once a
> week to relieve early menopause caused by the cancer
> treatment, those
> are stuck onto my thigh or bum and the location
> changed weekly.
>
> My last checkup at the Canadian Cancer Clinic was
> here in Vancouver
> on July 21st and everything is O.K. no sign of the
> cancer coming back
> and now don't have to go back again until November.
> Yeahh!
>
> I'm glad I found this group well roaming around
> loking for a support
> site for a friend.
>
> I hope to talk to you all via e-mail soon. Barb
> Gibson
>
>
>
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