My Journey With Cancer

   My life verses were God-given to me during a very difficult time in my life in Bible College in the summer of 1981 from Psalm 27:1, 14  “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” ...v.14,  “Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.”

My UW Experience:
   Through every chapter of my life I have surrendered myself and all trials and difficulties to Jesus, my Savior and Lord.  When I learned from UW, in Madison, Wisconsin in 2017 that I had precancer and possibly cancer throughout my uterus, I was not surprised because I had been living with endometriosis for many years, lost 5 babies, and continued to have many health problems as a woman. My medical team did all the required tests, exams, biopsies, etc., but came back to me after about a year or so of testing to tell me they wanted to do even more biopsies by going to surgery; then they would probably proceed with chemotherapy after that time. 

   My response after doing all my own research was to say, “no” and request just doing a total complete hysterectomy. After all, I was 57 going on 58 years old. This team of two female doctors denied me my request, even after I gave them some of my research in printed form from Mayo Clinic, Roches ...

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