TEAM WORK
With my gruelling cancer treatment behind me, and newly married, I only had one thing left on my mind.
‘I really want a baby,’ I told my husband John.
John did, too – but we knew the journey wouldn’t be easy.
After all, I couldn’t carry a baby.
A routine smear test when I was 26 revealed that I had small cell cervical cancer.
It was particularly aggressive, too.
Within a fortnight of being diagnosed, it had grown from 4x4cm to 6x6cm.
With my treatment over, it was time to try
After the chemotherapy, I was told the tumour had reduced in size, so I was able to undergo a hysterectomy – to remove my uterus.
Doctors said there was a chance that afterwards, they could still harvest my eggs, so it gave us hope.
The procedure was painful, but I recovered with John by
