My Personal Experience and Survival of Cervical Cancer
C.D. Hubbard
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In today's world there are so many women, young and old, who are affected by Cervical Cancer and the numbers are growing everyday. I think that it is very important that every woman whether she is young or old should have an annual check-up from the time that they go through puberty and on throughou 
t their live.
Most of the women who are affected by Cervical Cancer have it, are treated for it and survive but there are some who are not so lucky because the cancer is not caught in time. This is why it is so very important to have those annual check-ups even if you are uncomfortable going to the OBGYN and having to go through the pap-smear exams.
Those few minutes that are uncomfortable for you are a few minutes worth going through because they could save your life. I know this for a fact because I had Cervical Cancer and was treated for it and I am a survivor of it.
My story started in the last week of February 2004 when in all actuality it really started in February of 2003 but because of an incompetent medical staff my condition was unknown to me for a whole year and if I had not went back in for my annual check-up it may have went unknown and could have killed me.
I am so glad that I make it a point to have my annual check-ups because this is how it saved my life. I went to see my doctor in February of 2004 for my annual check-up and during the exam he noticed some irregular tissue on my cervical wall.
After the exam was over he sat down with me to talk to me about what he noticed and while he was looking back through my medical records he looked at my last check-up record and found that there was abnormal tissue found in that exam but no one had told me about it and someone had signed off on the exam.
He was really disturbed by this fact because he couldn't read the signature of the person that signed off on the exam and this upset my doctor because who ever had signed off on the exam was suppose to notify me so that something could have been done sooner. I think that he was worried that I was going to sue him for medical malpractice but I wasn't thinking anything like that I was worried about what was wrong with me.
Most of the women who are affected by Cervical Cancer have it, are treated for it and survive but there are some who are not so lucky because the cancer is not caught in time. This is why it is so very important to have those annual check-ups even if you are uncomfortable going to the OBGYN and having to go through the pap-smear exams.
Those few minutes that are uncomfortable for you are a few minutes worth going through because they could save your life. I know this for a fact because I had Cervical Cancer and was treated for it and I am a survivor of it.
My story started in the last week of February 2004 when in all actuality it really started in February of 2003 but because of an incompetent medical staff my condition was unknown to me for a whole year and if I had not went back in for my annual check-up it may have went unknown and could have killed me.
I am so glad that I make it a point to have my annual check-ups because this is how it saved my life. I went to see my doctor in February of 2004 for my annual check-up and during the exam he noticed some irregular tissue on my cervical wall.
After the exam was over he sat down with me to talk to me about what he noticed and while he was looking back through my medical records he looked at my last check-up record and found that there was abnormal tissue found in that exam but no one had told me about it and someone had signed off on the exam.
He was really disturbed by this fact because he couldn't read the signature of the person that signed off on the exam and this upset my doctor because who ever had signed off on the exam was suppose to notify me so that something could have been done sooner. I think that he was worried that I was going to sue him for medical malpractice but I wasn't thinking anything like that I was worried about what was wrong with me.