Once I Finished Beating My Cancer I Was Cursed With Night Sweats and Overcame It Too
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under Hot Flashes, Night sweats, cancer | No Comment
Having to deal with cancer was bad enough for me but the notion of living the rest of my time without one more complete nights sleep was ready to be the end of me. Night sweats had taken hold of me after my surgical treatment and I just had to do something about it. This is what I found.
Not too many years back I was told I had cancer; I was not happy to find that I would have to get a hysterectomy at such a youthful age. Though I have two children already, I would have loved to been able to hold on to the option for any more if we so chose. It is a bizarre sensation to realize that you will no longer have children particularly when it is not your decision.
In the beginning of my struggle I was mandated a contingent of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo was not very bad in the beginning yet as time went on it was obvious it was changing my body. I realize it can kill cancer yet it felt like a battle to the end was happening inside my body and the outcome would either be me or the cancer. I have always thought there ought to be a healthier way to deal with fighting cancer. Perhaps someday the cure will be made accessible to us, but until then I will only dream that if there is a biological un-patentable cure out there, the medical and pharmaceutical industry will keep a lid on it.
In time I was able say I was cancer free and the emotion of relief had covered me from top to toe. But as quickly as I had found this new reprieve I found a new problem had taken its place.