I just found your site and I am hoping that it will be helpful to me. Here is what has happened in the last two weeks.
I am a 39 year old woman (with a husband, 3 children, 1 puppy) and on Sunday, March 4th I told my husbnad (after two painful days) to take me to the hospital. I thought I had appendicitis. No such luck. First, they took one look at me and practically carried me to a room. They said I was as white as a sheet. They did blood work and I scored at 16 - they said a woman my age should score at 35. Then they sent me for tests - an external and internal sonogram and 2 CT Scans. They determined that I had a 4 inch ovarian cyst and had concerns about my colon. Originally they thought it was Crohns.
After surgery, the surgeons told us they took out my cysts, my right ovary, right fallopian tube, 8 inches of my colon and 15 lymph nodes. They told us they sent the stuff for testing and they were pretty sure it was colon cancer. Friday, March 9th we got the results - Stage 2 Colon Cancer. They also told us that 6 of the 15 lymph nodes they removed had cancer. They also told me I would have to undergo chemo.
I just got back from the hospital late last night. I am in pain, depressed, and finding it hard to see the end of the tunnel. They have assured me they have gotten all the cancer and that chemo is necessary to prevent it form returning. I am scared, sad, angry, pissed off, depressed, etc. How do you get through something like this? How do you think positively when you are in pain? How do you keep it together in front of your family????????