I do not feel like I was gypped in my life at all. I actually feel as though I was given a special gift.It made me see my life and my family in a different light. |
I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate. |
I said to myself, ?how can this possibly happen?? I had just gone through all the chemotherapy and now, I have cervical cancer. I guess I just have to laugh about it; because if not, it is just too much for me to handle. |
I think sometimes it makes you sicker than what you really are to take so much medication. |
It is somewhat of a rare genetic disease, |
Most of the patients are poor, and on Medicare, and doctors don't make as much money treating those kinds of patients, |
No one can guarantee me anything. I am much older and much sicker than I was when I had the first transplant, but I am confident in my doctors and confident that I will find a donor. |
Studies have shown that daily doses of hydroxyurea decrease the number of painful crises a person may experience and lengthen their life span as well, |
The week before my wedding, they told me they found the cancer. The week after, I had a partial hysterectomy. |
Then I also contracted Hepatitis C from all of the blood transfusions I was getting because of my crazy kidneys. The doctors said that one of the donors probably had such a slight case that they were not able to detect it during the screening process. |