I’ve been meaning to blog about this but have been putting it off since last month. I’m too lazy and it’s hard to put it in actual words when i’m not really an expressive person to begin with. So, i do what i’m rather good at doing, i procrastinated *shrugs*.

I’ve been telling myself that i’ll blog about it eventually because i need to put it in words so i will remember but i kept telling myself that i’ll do it after we get the results from the clinic – so just to be sure. Yes, i do realize that’s another excuse to procrastinate T___T.

Ok here goes.

Mom had uterine cancer. I stress on the word “had” with a big relief.

She’s ok now, running about doing housework and errands. It’s a miracle that she just had surgery 2 months ago. She’s a strong gal she is. And i’m awfully proud that she kept her head during the whole ordeal – i would have flipped and went on an emotional withdrawal if i was in her shoes.

I found out she was having irregular bleeding few months ago (almost 6 months ago) and i got worried. Actually she told my younger sister who told me eventually. It didn’t sound normal because as far as i know women who had pass menopause did not bleed and online search didn’t yield anything useful. Nevertheless, it raised my red flag.

The following few weeks, i kept pestering her to have it examined but being the mom that she was, she insisted that it was nothing. She kept insisting that the bleeding was due to infection which would go away eventually.

I suspect that she was half scared to find out the truth and the other half she did not want to waste money on doctors. That’s the kind of mom she is, always looking out for others besides herself. Ignore it hard enough it would go away right?

Wrong.

I blame myself for not being persuasive enough and for procrastinating but finally i called up the gynae for an appointment. Her condition had been dragging for 2-3months already.

The moment the doctor told us that there is some abnormality in her uterus i know it was something serious. I wanted to cry right there but i held back my tears, i needed to keep strong. Me bawling my eyes out would only frighten my mom. She had her blood pressure taken after that and it went off the roof for gods sake.

Doctor scheduled a biopsy immediately on the following week. The diagnose wasn’t good. It was cancer but to what extend was the cancer we didn’t know. He scheduled a hysterectomy for the following week which we agreed to. Getting a second opinion means wasting more precious time. We didn’t want to wait any longer.

After the surgery. Mom had Stage Ib cancer.

Stage 1b cancer means the cancer already infected the lining of the uterus and is about to break out into the lymph node. So we caught it just in time. Stage 1c would means that mom will need medications and chemotherapy. It was a huge relief!

Some might say that’s Stage 1 is nothing serious. But whatever stage it is only those who had experienced cancer would understand the immense shock, the anxiousness, the panic and all those terrible feeling of butterfly doing somersault in your stomach. Words can’t describe the whole ordeal. It’s a nightmare.

You know people always says there’s nothing like a crisis to bring your loved ones together. I’m glad that’s true with my family. I admit we are not the most loving family or even close to each other, but for what it’s worth we got closer and pulled through the whole ordeal (the boyfriend included :)).

Each of us were frightened but at least we were frightened together. We held our breathes together waiting in the hospital for the 4 hour surgery.

I’m forever grateful to my gynae (which is now my family’s gynae) for being so caring and understanding and most of all for being so prompt. Few more weeks, the cancer would have spread to other part of her body.

Mom had her checkup last week. So far so good. So we’re hoping for the best :))

I’ve had my annual checkup too. Have you had yours? Please be good too your body.