Dealing with cancer was dreadful enough for my family and I but the notion of living the rest of my time without another complete nights sleep was going to be the end of me. Night sweats had taken crept in after my surgery and I needed to do something about it. This story tells what I found.

Not many years ago I shocked to learn I had cancer; I was not a happy camper to find that I would have a hysterectomy at such a young age.  Though I have two kids already, I wished to have been able to hold on to the option for another if we so decided. It is an odd sensation to realize that you can no longer have kids more than ever when it is not your decision.

In the early stages of my fight I was placed into a contingent of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo was not too bad at the start yet as time went on it was obvious it was altering my body. I realize it can kill cancer yet it felt like a fight to the death was occurring inside my body and the outcome would either be me or the cancer. I have always thought there should be a better way to deal with this. Possibly someday the treatment will be made available to us, but until then I can only suppose that if there is a biological un-patentable treatment out there, the medical and drug industry will never let it out.

Eventually I was able to call myself cancer free and the sense of liberation had covered me from top to toe. However as rapidly as I had found this new reprieve I discovered a new dilemma had taken its place.

Previous to cancer I had a reasonably normal sleep pattern. I would go to bed, awaken maybe one time for a bath room break and go back to bed to finish with a full night’s sleep. But following the treatment and the surgical treatment I found myself tossed into a new world of menopause induced by my hysterectomy.

Now with this menopause came its cousin, menopausal night sweats, and a complete string of additional troubles. If I were to tell you every one of the associated issues included I might go on forever. The night sweats were adequate. The sweats would keep me awake all night and cause my husband to lose numerous hours of rest as well. Finally it caused him to move to an additional room. I had to find a solution. These night sweats were destroying me and my relationship.

I looked at numerous solutions to my dilemma plus tried very nearly every organic and un-natural therapy obtainable. I tried chilly pillows, I tried absorbing night clothes, I tried bizarre sheets, you name it I tried it. I was just about to give up when an acquaintance of mine gave me a doohickey known as a Bedfan. Now to be quite truthful with you when she said it over the telephone I was thinking she said Bed Pan and I was a little taken back as I could not figure for anything exactly how a Bed Pan was going to assist with night sweats.

Nonetheless, the Bedfan ended up being the life saver I was looking for. For me to clarify how it works I will take a passage from one of the first users of the fan. One lady stated it was like cooling off in a waterfall and not getting wet at all. That is precisely how it felt. Starting from that first night on, I never had night sweats yet again. Now don’t misconstrue I can feel my body getting warmer and solely from habit for a bit I expected to start sweating, yet it never happened.

Evidently the way this contraption works is, when your body starts getting hot, your bed is not able to reduce that heat fast enough. By means of the Bedfan the hot air is pushed out of the bed, in no way giving it an occasion to build up to sweating. This is how it feels; the next time you are relaxing in bed and you start to feel warm, merely raise up your legs to lift the sheets up high. Afterward slowly let your legs down and experience the breeze gliding across your body to cool it down. This is the way it feels all night long. 

At long last I find myself saddened that I can no longer create kids but in any case I am still breathing. Not only am I still breathing but credit to the Bedfan, I am able to sleep again and acquire the relaxation I need so that I can still spend time with the wonderful kids I do have. I hope this will help someone as much as it has me and my companion.

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