Cancer Survivors

Has anyone ever had a baby AFTER receiving cancer treatment?

Hey ladies, can anyone please demystify this before I loose my mind

I’ve been on here a few months and haven’t shared yet. Sometimes it feels like writing it down makes it more real somehow?

8 months ago I felt a lump/fullness in my side, I had just had my second daughter who was only four weeks old at the time. I thought maybe it was something to do with her birth. I went to the Dr and was sent for an ultrasound, the technician doing the scan acted a bit weird but didn’t say anything, I then got a call from the Dr asking me to come in. Even then I wasn’t too worried - even went to get my eyebrows done that morning (seems stupid now). I was coming out of the eyebrow appointment and I had a missed call from a nurse - she left a message saying I should bring a support person to my appointment. It was at that point that I realised it must be really bad - I drove home in tears. My husband and my baby came to the doctors appointment with me, she didn’t sugar coat it - “there’s a tumour in your kidney, it’s most likely cancerous and it is very large”. I felt like the world had fallen away from under me. I kept looking at my daughter and saying “but she’s so little”. I was referred to a specialist and had an MRI that confirmed RCC. Luckily contained to my kidney. During the two weeks waiting for diagnosis and surgery I was a mess, I also started getting a lot of blood in my urine. Genuinely thought I was going to die. Fortunately the surgery went well, the tumour was the size of a grapefruit (still don’t understand how it wasn’t picked up during pregnancy scans). At the moment things look good, I have to keep going for scans for the next 10 years. I’m trying to enjoy every day that I get with my girls. I am so grateful to be here. But I still get bad days, when I’m scared, broken and angry. I’m working on my well-being, trying to focus on health and happiness. Thanks for taking the time to read. X

Newly diagnosed cancer warrior here- will be starting chemo after mutation and genetic testing results come back… I have absolutely no idea what to expect and would rather hear it from someone who has been through it rather than from Google.. what can you tell me.. any advice/recommendations? Tips to prepare?

Also if anyone has tips on how to manage the financial impacts of it all- I’ve had multiple hospital visits, tests, medications to date and am more stressed about the financial burden of what’s coming next than the diagnosis itself.. even though my whole care team is telling me everything is very urgent. is that normal? I think I might still be in a denial stage not sure..

My story goes like this .. in 2016 I was rear ended with someone going almost 45mph. I suffered with a concussion. About a month later I spontaneously lost feeling on half of my body. Went to the ER where they preformed an MRI and noticed a gray spot in the front region of my brain which they assumed it was bruising of the brain from my car accident but recommended I go in for another MRI within 3 months to be sure. Well I don’t recall my neurologist mentioning that or trying to schedule me for that. Over the next 7 years I was suffering with focus and memory issues I was feeling extremely fatigued was also experiencing extreme personality changes and my primary care Dr would just order hormone test and say everything looks good 🤦🏻‍♀️ fast forward to New Year’s Eve 2022 I was involved in another car accident. After this accident my symptoms got progressively worse. I went to my family doctor and told him I needed another MRI to make sure I don’t have any permanent damage to my brain from the car accidents. The first MRI showed that the gray spot on my brain from 2016 had grown and was actually a tumor. I was then referred to OSU neurosurgeons to schedule surgery for removal. I had surgery on April 14th. And found out 2 weeks later it was a cancerous tumor. The oncologist believes he got it all out and decided to wait till July to do another MRI to see if I’ve had any changes or if it’s coming back. The waiting is the hardest 😭