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The Truth About Cancer
Cortney Campbell: They may or may not. Your fertility may or may not
return and they wanted to refer us to a fertility specialist to get eggs
frozen or embryos frozen which we were like—I mean we’re getting all
this—we’re having to make all these decisions. We’re newlyweds.
Kevin Campbell: So in the midst of all of that we immediately were
whisked away to the chemotherapy suite tour and I just remember this—
the best I can describe it is, its almost like a voice but it was Stephen
Furtick describes it, if you’ve ever heard the voice of God it doesn’t
sound like a voice. And that may—I know it sounds totally crazy when
somebody hears that. But this is the truth. It was an unshakeable
impression that came through my left ear, perpendicular to the thoughts
I was having, this is what my like—like this is what my mind was doing,
and then the most calm simplistic statement came into my head from
this sort of 90-degrees offset and said this is not for you.
Cortney Campbell: While we were in the chemo room.
Kevin Campbell: And it was so just confident, calm, short, this is not
for you.
Cortney Campbell: We came home and after calling relatives and I—
what I cried the most over and the only thing I lost sleep about through
this whole ordeal was I felt like I was mourning the children I never had.
And I can’t explain it except for those words. I just—there were these
children that I hadn’t had yet that I was—in my heart I knew I was
supposed to have but I had this huge barrier and this huge wall. And I
kept—every time I’d say let’s just go make the appointment. And at that
point we had the appointment to get the port put in. And I just—I was
more afraid of the treatment than I was of the actual cancer.
Kevin Campbell: I remember I found a video online while researching
clinical trials and, of course, I started at MD Anderson because they’re
supposed to be the best, right. So I found a video of the director of
clinical trials or the head, the guy who’s over. I don’t remember he was
the director or head researcher or what but he was in charge of that. His
name was Dr. Anas Younes. And he was on video stating at the end of
one of these videos about MD Anderson and their trials. He was at the
end of it talking in his office about how he believes strongly in clinical
trials because he believes that in 10 years from now we’re going to—
and this was in like 2006 they made this video but 10 years from now
we’re going to regard chemotherapy as a barbaric form of treatment.
Periodically she would just have these emotional outbursts where she
would just want to do the chemo and want to get….
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