← Return to I’m devastated and struggling with vaginal melanoma

Discussion
Comment receiving replies
Profile picture for Helen, Volunteer Mentor @naturegirl5

@hoping4cure Thank heavens you are consistent about going to your regular 6 month checkups. This is how my recurrence for endometroid adenocarcinoma was discovered through a physical/pelvic exam. This is too awful to consider but imagine what would happen had we not returned for our scheduled exams?

I know it's tempting to look up our respective cancers and treatments on the internet. But I realized that this only fed my anxiety and did not provide me with reliable and valid information. My gyn oncologist and radiation oncologist both told me that the information from reliable websites is often out of date by the time it appears. So I had to tell myself to trust and rely on what my oncologists told me.

Our emotions don't easily follow our logical minds. With what I wrote above, please consider trusting your "wise mind" which is the combination of your emotions and your logical mind. I have had to do this over and over again. I still do.

Do you have appointments set up for your next steps in treatment?

Jump to this post


Replies to "@hoping4cure Thank heavens you are consistent about going to your regular 6 month checkups. This is..."

@naturegirl5 yes I go in for “planning” tomorrow and then start radiation on Thursday. 5 sessions, 5 mins per session via brachytherapy. Scared out of my mind.