Stories of Survival: Mrs. G

Mrs. G is a wife, mother of four and grandmother of one. She is a strong-minded woman whose faith and trust is in God to provide for everything in her life. It was this same trust in God that helped her to stay strong emotionally and mentally during her own fight against cancer.

In the year 2006 Mrs. G began experiencing spot bleeding. At the age of 46 she beleived that she was experiencing early signs of menopause and as such carried on life as normal. The bleeding stopped after a while but in January of 2009 the spots of blood reappeared. She was now 48 years old and would be celebrating her 49th birthday in September of that same year.

September arrived and her husband concerned for her health was adamant that she visit a doctor, saying that he would do nothing but stay at home until she did. So finally a reluctant Mrs. G capitulated and on the 1st of October she visited the doctor. Her husband's insistence may have saved her life.

Mrs. G underwent a dilation and cartridge and it was found that the lining of her uterus was much thicker than it was supposed to be. At that time unbeknownst to Mrs. G the doctor told her husband that what they had scraped from her uterus did not look good.

Almost two weeks later Mrs G. was called by the doctor who asked her to come in the evening around 6:00pm. Mrs. G knew that she was going to hear bad news because of the time that she was asked to come and she prepared for the worst but Mrs. G never panicked. The bad news was that she did in fact have endometrial cancer, however the good news was that they could cure her through performing surgery since the cells were now changing and had not begun to spread.

Her surgery was scheduled for November 4th and went according to plan after she underwent a myriad of tests to ensure that she was healthy enough. The surgery was a total hysterectomy, they removed her womb, ovaries, fallopian tubes and her lymph nodes. Through everything, Mrs. G trusted God and was never afraid.

Her biggest challenge came as a result of the fact that she was overweight. "Fat does not bind." she said laughingly. Therefore the vertical cut on her abdomen had to receive special care to heal. Mrs. G had to go to the doctor everyday for about two weeks to receive proper care for the cut. As a matter of fact early in the healing process she noticed that the dressing seemed brown and when she visited the doctor there was a gaping hole in her stomach when the dressing was removed. Even through all this Mrs G experienced no pain.

Although she was prepared for the rigours of chemotherapy and radiation treatment she is very grateful that God spared from that. She has taken a follow-up CT scan and been given a clean bill of health.

Mrs. G expressed sincere thanks to her husband and children for all their strength and support. They took over the running of the house and gave her all the time she needed to heal. However, Mrs. G expressed her most heartfelt thanks to God:

"God has been extrememly gracious to me. I cannot say anything else."