My journey is a little different than most. I had chemo and 35 radiation treatments that ended in December 2018 for vulvar cancer. Everything was going along pretty well until I found another lump in August of 2019. I had a radical vulvectomy in September 2019. I am very grateful that it was not cancer, just scar tissue. My oncologist/gyn is very cautious and proactive, that’s why he did the radical.
We should all know we are at a higher risk for breast cancer and other types of gyn cancers. We also need to be our own best advocates. We know our bodies better than anyone else. I guess my point is there is always the fear of recurrence and the unknown, but if we are proactive in our health, go for our 3, 6month or yearly exams with the oncologist, have our yearly mammograms and listen to our bodies, we can all get to the next steps in our journeys and get our lives back. There will always be bumps in the road and detours, but at the end of the day, we all are survivors. You’ve got this!