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*flash back* December 14th …. My oncology appointment with Dr. Ivy Wilkinson-Ryan, the appt flashed across my screen… Norris Cotton Cancer Center…. Cancer center…. I couldn’t even believe I was there. My mom died of cancer, I never thought I’d have cancer…. Cancer … almost like a scarlet letter across your chest. Cancer ….. the unspeakable word, and I had it. I sat waiting for what seemed like forever, my best friend accompanied me so that I didn’t have to go alone. It was mid day, I lied to my sisters so they wouldn’t really know where I was, I worked the night before.  *doctor enters* long story short, I had to decide between immediate surgery or trying the hormone route. I chose to get the mri, get a d and c and then follow up for a biopsy in 3 months. My doctor told me weight does contribute but she also said she wouldn’t harp on me about it. She recommended I get off night shift because that does horrible things to your body. We said our good byes.  Fast forward …. The mri took p
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 I have written blog posts before, not sure why I didn’t think about it until now. My life has changed dramatically since 2021, not only did Covid change our entire lives, my own little tiny world got flipped upside down.  I had been having severe stomach cramping, bleeding almost every day for multiple years. I literally lived off ibuprofen, taking it every 6 hrs because the minute the cramping started I couldn’t handle it. I never knew when I’d bleed so life was always surrounded by that. But one day I finally decided to go to the OBGYN. I was 29, this was my first appt, I never went because my mom always made it seem like I didn’t need to go until I started having sex, well she died of pancreatic cancer, and I didn’t have sex until 2021.  My other friend that has been telling me for about a year to go had similar issues, she just had a thick lining and it was all good. I thought that’s all this was too, I was convinced I was fine, it was endometriosis, fibroids, thickened lining. So
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