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Need hope: Neuropathy from chemo

Cancer: Managing Symptoms | Last Active: Sep 29 8:27am | Replies (151)
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@tessie63

Thank you for replying to my email. Actually, my family doctor did not know that the cyst I had on my ovary had developed into a full grown tumour until I went to see her about my symptoms. She was devastated to find out what had happened and actually blamed herself. She had phoned the gynocologist I saw to ask her if we need to follow this every year with ultrasounds and she said it was too small to amount to anything and that was in 2014 and here we are today. The moral of this story is any size cyst on any organ should always be followed!
I watch a lot of sports on TV. I love baseball and our hometown football team and I have these word games on my I pad that I do every day. I find myself losing so many words now so this helps me with that. Please share your story with me sometime. It helps to know I am not the only one out there that was damaged by chemo.
Hope to hear from you again.
Carol

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Helen, Volunteer Mentor | @naturegirl5 | Jul 17, 2022

@tessie63. I so agree that anything size cyst on an organ should be followed closely! This is especially true for ovaries.

How wonderful that you enjoy sports on TV and your hometown football. Word games are fun and having your iPad handy whenever you want makes it very easy to enjoy those.

I'm a survivor of uterine cancer - 2019 with a recurrence in 2021. At this point my treatments have been surgery (hysterectomy) in 2019 and radiation therapy in 2021-22. I haven't had chemotherapy and at this point I feel my journey has not ended so who knows what will be in my future? I have follow-ups every four months and my next appointment will be at the end of August. My radiation oncologist told me that if I have another recurrence or primary cancer in the pelvic area it would be awhile before anything shows up. They are following a thyroid nodule that showed up in a PET scan last year - it has not changed - and lung nodules that showed up in a CT scan in April this year. I go to Mayo Clinic in Rochester and I've been pleased with my care and knowing that they will follow up when they say they will.

My favorite activities are being outside - thus the name, naturegirl5. I like to putter around in my garden in summer and snowshoe and x-country ski in winter. I live in the Upper Midwest and we have lots of snow so there are always winter activities to do.

What advice do you have for how you have arrived to this place in your life with such acceptance and gratitude?

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