Comments on: True Life: My Story.

By: Stephanie Cheshier

Stephanie Cheshier — Wed, 22 May 2013 01:01:00 +0000

I was only fifteen when I got diagnosed with stage 2 ovarian cancer!

By: lettie

lettie — Sun, 09 Jan 2011 15:40:29 +0000

Heyyy! your story has really hit home for me.
On the 1/1/10 I got really bad pains in my stomach and so went to a&e cos I’m british on the 3/3/10 they sent me home on the 7/1/10 cos they didn’t know what was up and then I was back on the 22/1/10 and waited four days to get my appendix out. Then I thought everything would be fine. I contracted the superbug c-diff so it took me double time to recover but my pain was so bad and my stomach started swelling. My stomach had been getting to the point where I went out and people would stare and make comments about me thinking I was pregnant so I went back to the a&e and like you they told me that I was badly constipated and gave my laxatives.

A few weeks ago a really sharp pain came in my stomach groin and down my leg and I had me on the floor crying and rolling around with the pain :/ so I wen back to the a&e and they did scans and the doctor old me I have a grwoth on my left ovary 7x5x4 and one in my left fallopian tube wich is 4×6 and lots of litle ones on my righ ovary. They said that there was abnormal changes to them so they took bloods for tumor markers.

I’m going to see the gynae oncon on tursday so 4 days eeek

Smile it confuses people xxxx

By: carol mills

carol mills — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:42:04 +0000

hi terri, i know how you feel with the nurses, and cancer, ive had the same probablem with nurses, like i would call them for something urgent and they would never come in, and plus my grandma just passed away because of ovarian cancer but im sure you wont because my grandma waited a real real long time before going to the doctor and she was in her 70s, and plus when i was 3yrs old i was diagnosed with chondro sarcoma taumor of the spine and i was the youngest person who had gotten that cancer cause usually only people over 40 get it but i got it and i had surgery chemo and radiation and it went away and came back a couple of times and because of that kind of cancer i have kyphosis scoliosis with rotation and when i was 6yrs old my doctor did surgery on me on feb 14th yep valentines day and he was taking a 6in rod out of my back and then i was suppossed to have another surgery afterwards to have a 12in rod put in well after surgery my parents always tickled my toes and i would always move them and this time i didnt and my parents tryed to tell the nurses and doctors but they said it was because of the anesteshia but it never did that to me before so a lil while later a nurse wanted to give me a tylenol sapository cause i had a fever so my mom told her if i dont feel it then to call a doctor and so she gave it to me and i didnt feel it so she called the resident doctor in and he took a writing pen and pressed it against my big toe and it left a red mark thats how hard he pressed so then i was having an mri done and my other doctor rushed in there and took me out and he said “why didnt they call me?” and my mom told him she tryed to get them to call him and then he said he doesnt know if he can save my legs and if they would have told him sooner he could have saved my legs so now im paralized and after that all my doctors stopped talking to me and my family they only talked to us if they really had to so then when i was 13yrs old we decided to sue and we setteled out of court and the lawsuit finished when i was 17yrs old and when it was going on we learned that my former doctor who said he was going to be the one doing the surgery was not even in the o.r he had a doctor who speacilized in the limbs not the spine and now im 21yrs old and im still going to that hospital im just not seeing that doctor anymore and im still going there because i have kidney stones that keep returning in i cant go to another hospital because i have to have the surgery while im awake because i have restricted lung deaseas so i cant be put to sleep for surgery because i wont be able to get off the vent in i have restricted lung deaseas because the radiation caused my bones to stop growing which sucks and i have an n.g tube because everything is squashed inside me because of what the radiation did but ive been free of cancer for over 5yrs which im glad about in i hope it never returns and i hope you get better:) i know it really sucks having cancer so hang in there carol.

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 20:37:24 +0000

Thank you hun, I am sorry you have to go though that.
:/

By: zoe

zoe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:47:45 +0000

I have allso suffered with ovarian cancer since i was 11, since then i have had it 3 times over the period of 4 years, chemotharapy has failed to work the only oprion is to operate everytime they find a tumours. i knoww how you feel xx

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:21:57 +0000

Why thank you, for reading, and also for understanding.
I am sorry about your son, but people are fighters, and him and I alike will get though it.

I would love to talk to your son.

my email is:

terribooker91@yahoo.com

By: Terri

Terri — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:21:25 +0000

Why thank you, for reading, and also for understanding.
I am sorry about your son, but people are fighters, and him and I alike will get though it.

I would love to talk to your son.

my email is:

terribooker91@yahoo.com

By: tanya

tanya — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:09:36 +0000

Dear Terri, I am so sorry to hear about what you’re going through and your experiences with nurses. As your mother would probably tell you, not all nurses are horrible. I ,too, am a nurse with a 14 yr old son fighting cancer. We had to change hospitals in order to find nurses with compassion. Don’t be afraid to speak up to your doctor or administration about your care. Your nurses should have compassion and make this time in your life easier. As for your language-my son says F this and F that when he’s hurting and angry too. You two would probably be perfect roommates. I went on this site to help him , so maybe you two can Email each other? Hang in there.