I was 5 months pregnant with my second son and recieved a phone call from the Dr’s office that no mother wants to hear. The results to the biopsy came back and showed that I had invasive cervical cancer. I read over the risk factors of the disease and none of them matched me or my life style. I don’t smoke, I was 20 when I first had sex and I had only been with three people. I had never had any STD’s that I had known of and I had been tested twice, once with each of my children.

My husband and I decided that we wanted to wait to do anything until we had our baby, so a couple of months later, my second son Ryan was born. Then the fun would begin. I went to my new physician who is a gyncologist/oncologist. He was wonderful, but very quick with his decisions. At the time, I needed that, I could not have time to back out. Two weeks after seeing him, I had a radical hysterectomy with the freezing and removal of all of my lymph nodes. Five days, 25 staples and a little bit of pain killers later, I was able to go home.

At my follow up visit I got more bad news…my cancer had most likely started in my uterus, went to my cervix and ovaries and we would start chemotherapy right away. What’s a little hair loss when I was looking at not being able to really get to know my son? We have made it through and I have two beautiful little boys that love their mommy. I have had only one little reoccurance, but I intend to remain cancer free for the rest of my life. 653 days and counting!!!!!