A woman remembers her cancerverasry every day she's still alive. I do too. October 9, 2011. I walked into the Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth Hitchcock Hospital for blood test review and knew I just had to be in the wrong place. I was told unless I started chemo right away I would be dead in 3 weeks. I always had theorized that I would never do chemo since my sister-in-law and friend died during it. My ex-husband, a friend at that point was there with me and somehow I was drugged and shipped in an ambulance 1 and 1/2 hours away to Dartmouth Medical Center in Lebanon. NH. The other choice was Boston. Something told me to go with NH Hospital. Very thankful I did. Took them several days to get me to do the chemo. Now I'm glad I did. I survived after several rounds of chemo, on and off for 4 months, radiation and a bone marrow transplant. Hard to believe what I did to survive, but I did and I'm here 5 years later living again.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Gives me hope. I'm soon to have surgery and radiation. I'm trying to avoid chemotherapy
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Chemotherapy saved my life. Don't ever give up. You are stronger than you think!
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