The Results

Sorry it has taken me so stinking long to get back to you about my cone biopsy results, it has been a crazy few days. I guess we should get right to the point: all of my margins were clear. This means that the edges of the biopsy did not show any cancerous cells. That is the wonderful news, however there was a little bad news: what they cut out was CIN3 and CIS. They cut out something called stage zero cancer, if left alone it would have turned into cancer. I am pretty happy with these results but if we are honest I am just greatful to have my results.

My followup appointments will be in six months. I asked if this was pretty normal and since the margins were clear this is normal. For people with not clear margins she sees them every three months. I do have to have two clear pap smears before I can go back to annual screening. I think that in the grand scheme of things I am glad that I have been pretty anal about getting screened.

I have often what is going to be my cause outside of my job and I think that cerviaval awareness is going to be one of my great passions. In all of this I realized that as women we have been taught that our bodies are to be treasured and that anything that happens to them is shameful. I will admit that I was ashamed that I had the early stages of cervical cancer for a variety of reasons. One of the main reasons is that we have been told that all cases of cervical cancer come from HPV and only sluts get HPV. I think that the majority of women don’t get HPV from sleeping with a million men but from being with someone they love.

I believe that there is nothing to be ashamed of, I had stage zero cancer and I beat it. I think that we as women need to not be ashamed of things that happen to us. I am going to try and tell more of this story over time, I will give more details at some point about the surgery so that if you find this blog because you are looking for info it will be helpful.

So in the interest of finally having a cause and keeping after it… make sure you get all checked out at least every other year… while it doesn’t spread fast if you leave it alone it will take more work to take care of it.

Xoxox

H