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Mspickerman Connect

Survivor: Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia Syndrome

Dear Cancer, When I first found out you were the reason that I was losing so much weight and couldn't eat, I didn't want to believe it. It didn't feel like I had cancer. What does cancer even feel like? Then I found out. The pain kept getting worse. I kept losing weight. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. I felt like I was over dosing on pain meds just to be able to go to my classes and function. I couldn't keep up with my classes, I was missing so much because some days I couldn't even leave my bed I hurt so bad. I was turning into a skeleton. Cancer, you hurt me. Not just physically, but emotionally too. Thanks to you I have five scars on my abdomen. Thanks to you I weighed 98 pounds. Thanks to you I was getting addicted to pills. Thanks to you I don't have a gallbladder or part of my pancreas. Thanks to you I stay up at night scared you might return thanks to having MEN Type 1. Thanks to you I can't look at myself in the mirror. Thanks to you I got hematomas and lost so much weight my arteries were tightening around my intestine. Cancer, thanks you to I don't know if I can have kids. It's because of you I'll need future surgeries. Because of you it's hard to emotionally function. Because of you I spent most of my winter break in hospitals as well as missed most of the month of college that I was even in for before I had to be put on medical leave. Cancer, I hope you get cancer so you can see how much it hurts. Cancer, I didn't have you. You had me. And for now you are concurred until we meet again.
Apr 28 2016 10:45pm |
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