the-truth-about-cancer

The Truth About Cancer
was happening to me at this time. I had no idea there was a reason for
even craving ice of this magnitude. We began a chemo regimen of six
months chemo treatment through a port-a-cath where I would have IV
treatments and I would have to go home with a little IV bag so I was
attached to chemo for three days at a time. I had been sick due to the
fact that my colon had completely closed off. And at 28-years-old no one
was looking for this. I had gone to doctors, I had gone to emergency
rooms, I kept being dismissed, being dismissed because of my age and
told that it was a stomach virus. When I was on Christmas break I went
to the emergency room because of getting sick one more time. I was
once again told this is just a stomach virus. You can go in and go home
and we’ll take care of it later whenever you get back. Maybe it’s your
gallbladder. You can have your gallbladder taken out when you get back
home. I didn’t believe that that’s what was happening to me. And I
refused to leave the hospital.
The only test they could give me when I refused to leave was a CT
scan. And upon the CT scan reviews they found I had a large mass in
my colon and scheduled emergency surgery for Christmas day. On
Christmas morning I had the surgery and when I came to I was told that
I had stage III colon cancer that had ruptured from my colon into my
small intestines and had spread into lymph nodes. This is not what
anyone expects to hear at 28-years-old. I didn’t have any history with
cancer myself. I really didn’t have any knowledge about cancer, the
reason why it started so young. We did have a family history of it but no
one had ever had it at 28-years-old. So I began a chemo regimen. The
chemo was inserted through a port-a-cath in my chest and it was six
months worth of treatments. I would have treatments every two weeks
and I would have six hours worth of infusion in office and then I would
go home with a pack with more chemo that would continue for the next
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