@miriam57 I know what you mean. We cancer survivors are in this group together. If one more person says to me "I'm sorry" as the beginning to whatever else they're going to say to me I might scream.

You have been though so much this year. You are the example of living with cancer. I'm glad to know you've had a bit of a rest from treatment and can go into whatever is next feeling stronger.

Tumor with tentacles. That's a good description and yes, how can they radiate without affecting a larger area of your pelvis? It's a good question to ask the radiation oncologist.

My partner (retired physician) says you never want to be that "interesting case". But that's me to a certain extent. After my hysterectomy in 2019 the cancer was staged 1a with a 5% chance of recurrence. And now I'm that 1 in 20 who did have a recurrence within two years of first diagnosis.

I have 25 sessions of external beam radiation scheduled. I'm halfway though that. Then I'll have two sessions of brachytherapy at the site where the cancerous tissue was found at my check-up visit in October. I did have an encouraging conversation with one of the radiation oncologists on the team today who told me that my recurrence was caught very early so that the prognosis is more favorable. Still, it's not like we can take a pill for 10 days and be cured as if this is a sinus infection. We survive, and we live with cancer. That's us.

Do you have a support network or group? A therapist for counseling you can talk to?

When is your appointment with radiation oncology? Will you come back here and let me know what happens?

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