Surviving Cancer

[trukinlady]

Here's the thread. I've got to log off for now, but I'll post again soon.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

January 2006 I semi retired after about 45 years of working in the flooring business. Up to that point my health had been great except for several surgeries from injuries. So good I hadn't been to a Dr in almost two years. My Primary Dr drops you after two years and you have to wait for an appointment and undergo a complete physical to get back as a current patient so in June I decided I should probably check in. During the exam he discovered a ridge on my prostate that he thought was very important and refered me to a Uroligist. I told him ok but he must have read my mind. When I got home the Uroligist was ringing my phone when I walked in the door and informed me this was urgent, telling me when my appointment was going to be. I guess I should have been heads up because my Uncle had died from prostate cancer about three years before but I still didn't think it a big deal, mainly because I knew several men who had gone through it and said there wasn't much to it. While for the most part it's one of the most treatable, there are three different grades and stages. The low grade is fairly easy to treat if they treat it at all. I had a much faster grade that takes you out a lot quicker and isn't so easy to treat, the same kind that took my Uncle. It was second stage when they found it and had possibly already spread. Being a fairly open person I asked for prayer at Church. My fellow Church members immediatly rallied to support me and countless prayers went out daily. Soon most of my friends knew and I wound up on prayer lists in at least 7 Christian Churches and 1 Synagogue. Divine intervention was already underway, no doubt in my mind. I was given a list of treatment options and chose radiation, both beam and seed implants. The Urologist office gave me a list of Oncologists and I chose one in the county I live in instead of where the Urologist worked, only to find out later that the two had never worked together before and the one I chose wasn't really supposed to be an option on the list. Mistake? Think what you will, I think not. I went to see him and he informed me the kind of cancer I had at stage two needed to be treated very aggressivly. He is also a Christian where the Urologist, not so much. I was adjusted and tatooed for eight weeks of beam radiation daily and set up for radioactive seed implants as well as eighteen months of hormone therapy. I went through full menopause, the same as women, complete with eighteen months of severe hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings. During this prayer for me continued both collectivly and individually and hands were laid on me by Bible Study Students. I had a bad reaction to the hormone shots and got huge, extremely painful hematomas in my hip when they gave them to me and some bone damage. After two of the shots they surgically implanted a capsule in my arm good for a year instead of the shots. They gave me a month to rest after the beam radiation then did the implants. I had friends who said they were out mowing a week after. Three months later I asked the Oncologist why I still wasn't out mowing and he told me the seeds they used weren't the Iodine ones most guys get. "I told you we were going to treat this aggresivley". Seems I could probably have walked by a gieger counter and set it off. February the Oncologist released me and said he was turning it over to Urology and I was cancer free. I'm still having problems from the treatments, hip issues, bleeding etc. but my checkups have been good for five years next month.
It's been quite an experience. From day one I never questioned God about it, nor did I ever have any fear at all. I prayed for his will to be merciful and for him to make me ok with whatever his will was for me. That's it. Never prayed to live. Just put myself in Jesus' hands and kept trying to do the next right thing and Jesus healed me bodily and kept me spiritually fit through the whole ordeal. Sometimes what seems to be tradgedy turns out to have positive effects. It has strengthened me and given my testimony a boost. I will tell anybody how I got cured, you see, the Drs and medical personel do the work but the healing has to come from Jesus.

 

[trukinlady]

God Bless you WuzzntMe!! Awesome testimony! Thank you for sharing it with us! I never had radiation treatments--just chemo. I couldn't imagine having both!! I understand completely about complications. It's frustrating when your body doesn't do what you want it to. But His strength is made perfect in our weakness! Amen! Thank God so many people were praying for you! It may not seem like it at times, but He is always in control. I don't believe in coincidences. He has His Divine plan for each of us, and He will see it accomplished.

With your permission, I'd like to copy this post of yours to my Cancer Survivors forum. It doesn't have much activity, but your testimony would be encouraging to all who read it, I'm sure!

 

[Wuzznt Me]

I agree. There are no coincidences. Just God's plan moving right along. He guided everyone involved in my recovery and held my hand through the whole thing. My prayers now are that he use it to glorify his name and to give the same strength to others he gave to me. Before I accepted Jesus as my Savior if the same thing had happened I would have died in sheer terror.

Please feel free to copy and paste my post anywhere you think it may belong. I didn't know such a forum existed. Could you send me a link to it? I'd really like to read others experiences.

 

[trukinlady]

Here's the link: Cancer Survivors and Loved Ones

There's not a lot of activity there, but I check it often.

 

[Survivors Mom]

Wuzznt Me... congratulations on your "free"dom!

Such an inspiring story... thank you so much for sharing it.

 

[Wuzznt Me]

Thank you, and congrats to your son as well. Sounds like he has a story as well. "They" mean well but their knowledge is finate. I'm happy for your family and congratulations on soon becoming a Grandmother.

 

[Survivors Mom]

Thank you! Elated doesn't begin to describe the feeling! The last 3 years has indeed been a roller coaster ride but with great medical attention and awesome fertility specialists, I think everything's going to be wonderful!

I'm completely grateful to Doug's doctors and their staffs! All they can tell us is what they understand from their vast knowledge. I just thank God some things aren't up to them.

Blessings...