Twenty-Three year Battle of Cervical Cancer

Hello everybody, I am new to the formum.  Been looking for a long time for a cancer support group, pretty much since www.planetcancer.org went belly up!  I am going to be celebrating my 41st birthday this November 2017 and it will also be the twenty-third year living with cancer.  Living with cancer this long I sometimes forget I even have it and it is easy to go into denial about how sick I really am.  Three years ago my cancer decieded to relocate from my pelvic area to my lungs and advance to Stage Four.  I have been keeping it mostly stable for the last three years but found out that it is growing again.  I have been very emotional and feel like a newely diagnose person all over again. Doctor is starting to make alot of noise about quality of life etc.  I have had a really good quality of life the last twenty-three years even with living with cancer and am now facing a deliema of moving forward with more treatment or changing my lifes goals. I can no longer live independently and have moved in with my sister.  I am scared but also feel like I am entering a new phase of my life and appriciate all the support I can get!

Thank you All

  • I just wanted to stop by and give you a warm welcome to our forum, tallakisa.

    Also, thank you for sharing your story with us. You sound like an incredibly brave person who has been through quite a lot! Hopefully, some of our members will soon join in to share their stories with you and offer their support.

    Feel free to post as much as you need, tallakisa, there is always someone here to listen whenever you need a chat.

    With my kindest regards,

    Renata, Cancer Chat Moderator

  • Thank you Renata!  It has really been helping me to connect to others!  I have already met some really great people that are helping me to cope with the new changes my journey is taking. It has been suggested to me to write down my lifes story and I have started working on it.  I was afraid to start writing it for awhile becasue I was afraid of the ending but now I am so glad I have started, already the writing of it is helping me to cope with everything I am going through.

    I am amazed too at how much I have accomplished in my life and all that I experienced.  I am only up to my first year in elementary school and already I have writtten about fifty pages. 

    Have a great day!