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From: Wendy [mailto:bloodandgutz27@...]
Sent: Sunday, October 03, 2004 9:07 AM
To: Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Cervical-Cancer] New Kid on the Block/Wendy

     Hi all.  Ive been putzing around in yahoo for a while and im 
glad i finally found an active board dealing with cervical cancer.
     Im 35 yrs old with 2 kids and was diagnosed last month with
adenocarcinoma of the cervix.  At this point i know that it is at
least in-situ, but the pathologist said that there was a high
likelyhood that it had invaded the margins.  My diagnosis was done
with a LEEP, which uses an electrocautery device to cut the tissue. 
Unfortunately, when the tissue burns, it makes reading the margins
more difficult. ( i work in an operating room as a scrub nurse, so
unfortunately or fortunately, i know these kind of things) 
     I go back  on thursday  for another  biopsy.... im still not
sure weather this one is going to be another leep or a cone, but ill
find that out tommorrow.
     The results of that test will determine weather or not i will
have a simple hysterectomy, a modified radical or a radical.    
     Ive been riding the rollercoaster since then.  I think the worst
part is the not knowing what exactly im walking around with and
playing the waiting game.  I know something is growing in there, I
know that with adenocarcinoma  even if we get clear margins on the
second try, that it could have skipped cells and that there could be
an even bigger lesion just beyond where the biopsy was taken.
                                          Waiting in Limbo,
                                          Wendy