Kicking Cancer's Butt
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My name is Katlynn Frazier. I'm 24 and battling cervical cancer. I went to the doctor for a routine check up and the results came back as abnormal. So I had to go back to the doctor to get a colposcopy performed. That was one of the most painfully awkward situations of my life. But looking at my cervix my doctor, Dr. Morris, thought that it looked like it wasn't anything that a LEEP procedure and monitoring every 3 months wouldn't take care of. However, when those results came back Dr. Morris told me that she had to refer me to an oncologist. I had my first appointment with him and he is truly an amazing doctor. He performed a deep cone biopsy, which he said looked like he got everything and I wouldn't need further treatment. But those results actually came back that the further up the cancer goes the more advanced and invasive it is. I'm actually battling a stage IB1 cancer. At 24, I now have to face 2 decisions, do I want to have a modified hysterectomy and possibly chemo and radiation afterwards, or a radial trachelectomy (which is where they will remove my cervix, place a band around the bottom of my uterus to act as a cervix if I ever do get pregnant.) with this I will have chemo before and radiation after. Who doesn't want the possibility of children? I agree but my life is A LOT more complex than that. I also at the same time as getting diagnosed with cervical cancer, got diagnosed with a very active form of ulcerative colitis. My colitis is very stress driven, but radiation will demolish my colon. Radiation can cause an active form of Radiation Colitis. So that worries all of my doctors with any decision I make. The stress from knowing about having cancer and the stress from other life happenings (my baby sister getting in a horrible car accident leaving her with 2 broken legs and a broken back) is making it hard to get my colitis in remission, but how do you tell someone in my position not to stress?
At 24, I never pictured my life to be this way. But it's the curve balls that life throws at us that keeps us guessing. I'm not letting this hold me down. I'm happy that I was given this battle and not my younger sisters. I have faith that God is by my side and he will help me through this.
I will keep posting updates from PET scans and doctor visits. Any amount of donations will help. With either form of treatment that I choose, I will have to be out of work for 6 weeks. This is going to make things VERY rough and stressful for me.
My name is Katlynn Frazier. I'm 24 and battling cervical cancer. I went to the doctor for a routine check up and the results came back as abnormal. So I had to go back to the doctor to get a colposcopy performed. That was one of the most painfully awkward situations of my life. But looking at my cervix my doctor, Dr. Morris, thought that it looked like it wasn't anything that a LEEP procedure and monitoring every 3 months wouldn't take care of. However, when those results came back Dr. Morris told me that she had to refer me to an oncologist. I had my first appointment with him and he is truly an amazing doctor. He performed a deep cone biopsy, which he said looked like he got everything and I wouldn't need further treatment. But those results actually came back that the further up the cancer goes the more advanced and invasive it is. I'm actually battling a stage IB1 cancer. At 24, I now have to face 2 decisions, do I want to have a modified hysterectomy and possibly chemo and radiation afterwards, or a radial trachelectomy (which is where they will remove my cervix, place a band around the bottom of my uterus to act as a cervix if I ever do get pregnant.) with this I will have chemo before and radiation after. Who doesn't want the possibility of children? I agree but my life is A LOT more complex than that. I also at the same time as getting diagnosed with cervical cancer, got diagnosed with a very active form of ulcerative colitis. My colitis is very stress driven, but radiation will demolish my colon. Radiation can cause an active form of Radiation Colitis. So that worries all of my doctors with any decision I make. The stress from knowing about having cancer and the stress from other life happenings (my baby sister getting in a horrible car accident leaving her with 2 broken legs and a broken back) is making it hard to get my colitis in remission, but how do you tell someone in my position not to stress?
At 24, I never pictured my life to be this way. But it's the curve balls that life throws at us that keeps us guessing. I'm not letting this hold me down. I'm happy that I was given this battle and not my younger sisters. I have faith that God is by my side and he will help me through this.
I will keep posting updates from PET scans and doctor visits. Any amount of donations will help. With either form of treatment that I choose, I will have to be out of work for 6 weeks. This is going to make things VERY rough and stressful for me.
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Katlynn Frazier
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Lutz, FL