the-truth-about-cancer

Episode 6: What Would Doc Do
48 hours. This went on for six months. And at the end of the six months
it was wonderful to have a scan and hear the news that I was cancer
free. There’s nothing like hearing that you’re cancer free after a long
cancer battle. But of course, once you began the cancer battle you have
to continue having further testing to make sure that you remain healthy.
So six months after my testing, and I was told I was cancer free, I had
another scan. This time the scan came back that the cancer had
returned and it had returned in the lymph node between my neck and
my lower abdomen and it was spread throughout my body. Because the
cancer had returned and it was spread I was told I was stage IV. This
was right after my 30 th birthday. So we once again began a separate
and a new chemo regimen. This time it was different treatments. This
time it was definitely more intense. And once again, the only focus was
getting me through treatment, getting me to eat food, hold food down,
and just survive the next six months, the same treatment as before. The
six months was much more challenging than my first round of chemo
the year before. At that time I was just going through the motions. I was
just doing what I had to do to survive.
The second time I was trying to simply live, live through the chemo. I did
lose my hair but hair comes back. I did have crazy changes from the
chemo treatment in my body. Chemo does some very, very unusual and
strange things to your body. All that goes away with time. I also had a
blood clot at this time. The blood clot almost killed me. It was my in
superior vena cava and my family was actually called in and told that I
might not survive through the night when this happened. I developed the
blood clot because of the port-o-cath that I was getting the chemo
treatments through. I did survive the blood clot as you can see. I was
told that at that time that no one survives blood clots that are the size of
a silver dollar. But for some reason I saw this one through. I continued
on with my chemo treatments, had another scan, so after two rounds
with colon cancer I was told that I was once again cancer free. And we
celebrated and felt this time we’ve really beat it. This time it’s done.
Later in that same year I had another PET scan just to confirm that the
cancer was gone. The PET scan came back clean. There was no signs
of cancer. Within just three weeks I myself noticed on my neck that I had
some enlarged lumps on my neck that I found very strange. So I told my
doctor about it and they said let’s do another PET scan just to see what
we have going on here. This time the PET scan came back very
different than the first one. This time it came back showing that I had
between 10 to 15 tumors all throughout my abdomen and my neck that
the cancer was back full force, stronger than ever, and this time I was
told that I was terminal. No one wants to hear two days after you turn
31-years-old that you have terminal cancer. No one ever wants to hear it
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