I was first diagnosed in 2010 as stage 3c ovarian cancer. Had a radical hysterectomy with debulking and then 6 cycles of carboplatin/ paclitaxol adjuvant chemotherapy. The cancer returned in 2014 and again and again…
I am up to the 8th line of chemotherapy. I am on carboplatin/ Caelyx at the moment. I have had 50 cycles of chemotherapy in total, I have the next in 2 weeks. Another PET CT scan will tell me if I’m done with the chemo, or not! My ca125 has not been higher than 10 for the last 6 years even when I have had cancer.
I’ve always said that every day is a good day, because it’s what God planned for you. There’s no such thing as a bad day. There are definitely hard days, but somehow I have always come out the other end knowing that I have coped, and sometimes even been blessed.
At the moment I’m wondering how much more of this I can cope with, and I’m praying that the scan this time will be clear. The question is also for how long? I keep trusting God for what He has in store for me. I am definitely a miracle, living as long as I have with the disease recurring so many times. My oncologist calls me his Champion! I know I give hope to others, even though my journey has not been a pleasant one. But as I have said, I have also been blessed along the way with successes that I would not have believed possible. My faith in the One True Living God is what keeps me getting out of bed, and teaching high school students every day.