Once I Finished Destroying My Cancer I Was Stuck With Night Sweats and Overcame That Too
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under Hot Flashes, Night sweats, cancer | No Comment
Dealing with cancer was awful enough for us yet the thought of living the rest of my days without another full nights rest was going to be the ending of me. Night sweats had taken hold after my operation and I just had to do something concerning it. This story tells what I did.
Not many years ago I shocked to learn I had cancer; I was not happy to discover that I would have to get a hysterectomy at such a young age. Although I have two children already, I would have loved to been able to hang on to the choice for another if we so decided. It is a weird feeling to realize that you will no longer have children especially when it is not your choice.
In the first months of my fight I was given a contingent of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo was not very bad in the beginning but as time went on it was apparent it was altering my body. I realize it can destroy cancer but it felt like a fight to the end was taking place within my body and the conclusion would either be me or the cancer. I have long thought there should be a better way to deal with this. Maybe in the future the cure will be made accessible to us, but until then I will only imagine that if there is a natural un-patentable cure out there, the health and pharmaceutical industry will never let it out.
In time I was able say I was cancer free and the sense of liberation had covered me from head to toe. However as rapidly as I had found this new reprieve I found a new problem had taken its place.