As soon as I Finished Fighting Cancer I Was Stuck With Night Sweats and Beat It Too
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under Hot Flashes, Night sweats, cancer | No Comment
Having to deal with cancer was bad enough for us but the notion of dealing the rest of my life without another full nights rest was going to be the end of me. Night sweats had taken crept in after my surgical treatment and I just had to do something about it. This will tell you what I had to do.
A few years back I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer; I was not pleased to discover that I would have a hysterectomy at such a young age. Though I have two kids already, I prayed to have been able to preserve the choice for another if we so decided. It is a weird sensation to know that you can no longer have kids in particular when it is not your choice.
In the first months of my struggle I was placed into a regiment of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo was not very bad at first but as time went on it was obvious it was changing my body. I know it can kill cancer but it felt like a conflict to the death was taking place inside my body and the result would either be me or the cancer. I have always thought there ought to be a better way to deal with fighting cancer. Possibly in the future the medication will be made accessible to us, but until then I can only imagine that if there is a biological un-patentable medication out there, the health and pharmaceutical industry will keep it under lock and key.
In time I was able consider myself cancer free and the emotion of release had covered me from head to toe. Except as soon as I had found this fresh reprieve I discovered a fresh crisis had taken its place.