Womb Gloom! A Story Of A Cancer Survivor

By Kenneth Kee

This is a true story as told to me by my patient. She has asked me to write her story.

She has been my patient for the past 38 years seeing me since I first started my clinic.

She brings her mother and her children to see me for minor coughs and colds.

Of course as she aged, she also sees me for minor aches and pains.

Once a year she would go foe an annual blood test which invariably showed nothing significant in her blood except for a slightly raised blood cholesterol.

Every year she also goes for her annual Pap’s smear and uterus ultrasound without problem.

There was insignificant enlargement of the womb due to a fibroid formation.

She has a history of a father who died of nose cancer and a mother who died of cancer of the colon.

Her younger sister also has cancer of the cervix followed by cancer of the uterus.

With all these history of cancer, there may be a familial risk of cancer.

6 months after her last gynecological checkup, she suddenly had small amount of bleeding from the vagina. She immediately saw me and I advised her to see her gynecologist for a review.

She immediately made an appointment to see her gynecologist the next day.

The result of the examination was the presence of endometrial polyps in the wall of the uterus. The gynecologist wanted to refer her to a gynecologist oncologist.

She asked my opinion about this. Instead I referred her to a husband and wife gynecologist team who had operated on her sister previously.

The appointment was the next day in the morning. The gynecologist did an ultrasound which was suggestive of uterine cancer and confirmed it by removing some tissue from the uterine wall for examination.

The results came back in the afternoon with confirmation of Stage 2 cancer of the uterus

She was immediately admitted to the hospital for urgent operation the next day.
The rest of the story will be told in her own words.

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Sudden Menstrual Bleeding

Chapter 3 Surgery

Chapter 4 Radiation

Chapter 5 Medical Review

Epilogue

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kenneth Kee
• Release date: Jun 2, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301866120

Kenneth Kee

Medical doctor since 1972.Started Kee Clinic in 1974 at 15 Holland Dr #03-102, relocated to 36 Holland Dr #01-10 in 2009.Did my M.Sc (Health Management ) in 1991 and Ph.D (Healthcare Administration) in 1993.Dr Kenneth Kee is still working as a family doctor at the age of 74However he has reduced his consultation hours to 3 hours in the morning and 2 hours inthe afternoon.He first started writing free blogs on medical disorders seen in the clinic in 2007 on http://kennethkee.blogspot.com.His purpose in writing these simple guides was for the health education of his patients which is also his dissertation for his Ph.D (Healthcare Administration). He then wrote an autobiography account of his journey as a medical student to family doctor on his other blog http://afamilydoctorstale.blogspot.comThis autobiography account “A Family Doctor’s Tale” was combined with his early “A Simple Guide to Medical Disorders” into a new Wordpress Blog “A Family Doctor’s Tale” on http://ken-med.com.From which many free articles from the blog was taken and put together into 1000 eBooks.He apologized for typos and spelling mistakes in his earlier books.He will endeavor to improve the writing in futures.Some people have complained that the simple guides are too simple.For their information they are made simple in order to educate the patients.The later books go into more details of medical disorders.He has published 1000 eBooks on various subjects on health, 1 autobiography of his medical journey, another on the autobiography of a Cancer survivor, 2 children stories and one how to study for his nephew and grand-daughter.The purpose of these simple guides is to educate patient on health disorders and not meant as textbooks.He does not do any night duty since 2000 ever since Dr Tan had his second stroke.His clinic is now relocated to the Buona Vista Community Centre.The 2 units of his original clinic are being demolished to make way for a new Shopping Mall.He is now doing some blogging and internet surfing (bulletin boards since the 1980's) startingwith the Apple computer and going to PC.The entire PC is upgraded by himself from XT to the present Pentium duo core.The present Intel i7 CPU is out of reach at the moment because the CPU is still expensive.He is also into DIY changing his own toilet cistern and other electric appliance.His hunger for knowledge has not abated and he is a lifelong learner.The children have all grown up and there are 2 grandchildren who are even more technically advanced than the grandfather where mobile phones are concerned.This book is taken from some of the many articles in his blog (now with 740 posts) A Family Doctor’s Tale.Dr Kee is the author of:"A Family Doctor's Tale""Life Lessons Learned From The Study And Practice Of Medicine""Case Notes From A Family Doctor"

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Womb

Gloom!

A Story

Of

A Cancer Survivor

by

Dr Kenneth Kee

M.B.,B.S. (Singapore)

Ph.D (Healthcare Administration)

Copyright Kenneth Kee 2013 Smashwords Edition

Published By Kenneth Kee at Smashwords.com

Dedication

This book is dedicated

to my wife Dorothy

and my children

Carolyn, Grace

and Kelvin

This book is the true story of a cancer survivor housewife who was afflicted by Cancer of the Womb.

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Chapter 1

Introduction

This is a true story as told to me by my patient. She has asked me to write her story.

She has been my patient for the past 38 years seeing me since I first started my clinic.

She brings her mother and her children to see me for minor coughs and colds.

Of course as she aged, she also sees me for minor aches and pains.

Once a year she would go foe an annual blood test which invariably showed nothing significant in her blood except for a slightly raised blood cholesterol.

Every year she also goes for her annual Pap’s smear and uterus