Once I Finished Fighting Cancer I Was Cursed With Night Sweats and Overcame It as Well
Posted on Jan 21, 2010 under Hot Flashes, Night sweats, cancer | No Comment
Dealing with cancer was bad enough for us yet the notion of dealing the rest of my time devoid of one more complete nights sleep was going to be the ending of me. Night sweats had taken set in after my surgery and I needed to do something concerning it. This story tells what I had to do.
Not many years ago I shocked to learn I had cancer; I was not happy to find that I would require a hysterectomy at such a youthful age. Though I have two kids already, I would have loved to been able to maintain the decision for another if we so chose. It is a strange feeling to realize that you can no longer have kids more than ever when it is not your decision.
In the first months of my struggle I was mandated a contingent of treatments that required radiation and chemotherapy. The chemo wasn’t too bad at the start but as time went on I could tell it was changing my body. I realize it can kill cancer but it felt like a conflict to the death was taking place inside my body and the outcome would either be me or the cancer. I have long thought there ought to be a better way to deal with cancer. Perhaps someday the medication will be made available to us, but until then I can only suppose that if there is a biological un-patentable medication out there, the medical and drug industry will keep a lid on it.
In time I was able consider myself cancer free and the emotion of release had covered me from top to toe. However as rapidly as I had found this fresh reprieve I found a fresh setback had taken its place.