Mary Anne,
LOL i like your spunk!
Wendy

--- In Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Anne" <whitedog@m...>
wrote:
> Wendy,
>
> It's hard to know for me. I had some other factors around the time
of my
> hysterectomy. The biggest thing seems to be dryness. I've heard
that from
> others too, but that would be my only complaint and you can always
do
> something about that. I didn't notice any "nerve" type problems.
>
> I still get upset sometimes about the inability to have another
child. But,
> I feel so blessed to have one, I try not to let it get me down.
It's tough
> when people want to argue with you, "What do you mean you're just
having
> ONE?? You have to have at least two kids." I get that a lot. If
I'm
> feeling spiteful, I just tell them the true sob story of cancer,
> infertility, and then a hysterectomy real blunt and that usually
shuts them
> right up.
>
> Mary Anne
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wendy [mailto:bloodandgutz27@h...]
> Sent: Friday, October 15, 2004 10:47 PM
> To: Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Cervical-Cancer] Re: New Kid on the Block/mayranne and
others
>
>
>
> Thanks Mary Anne...Im getting a cone on monday....hopefully, i
will
> wind up with a simple hysterectomy based on the findings. One
thing
> i cant find much information on is sex after a hysterectomy. The
few
> people ive talked to who have had one say that everything is
fine...
> that youre just shutting down the baby factory. My concerns are
that
> A) nerves being cut (sex hasnt been the same after my second {fat
> headed} child.... B) the psychological aspect of "not having all
of
> my female parts".
> Wendy
>
> --- In Cervical-Cancer@yahoogroups.com, "Mary Anne"
<whitedog@m...>
> wrote:
> > Hi Wendy. I too had adenocarcinoma in situ diagnosed in 1998.
> After a
> > conization in 1998 and a simple hysterectomy in 2001, I'm doing
> just great.
> > I have one daughter who is now 3. She was conceived through
> artificial
> > insemination after the conization left me "infertile." Good
luck
> with the
> > next step and I'll be thinking about you.
> >
> > Mary Anne
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Wendy [mailto:bloodandgutz27@h...]
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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