No one warned me

[Meg]

Don't get me wrong, I am 150% esctactic to be alive. I am a cancer survivor and glad to be. But if I sound a bit surprised to still be around, I don't think I am the only one. There was the same feel from the cancer specialists when I was in treatment. It was as if it was enough just to survive and if the treatments also destroyed my chance at having a family, well, at least your alive.

I totally get it. But still I wish someone had said something about the effects of the chemo, which not only attached my cancer and helped me become cancer free (so far, knock on wood!) but would also destroy the fragile potential in my ovaries. No one said a word, and when there I was almost a full six month past the treatment and feeling much better and actually contemplating that I might be one of the ones who beat the odds, only then did I realize that my periods weren't returning to normal not because of my condition, but because of all the treatment I'd gone through.

It's true. It affects it. So take precautions and now there are a lot of things you can do. Go to a fertility specialist. Have your ovaries frozen or something similar. Just because you are battling the big C and it's hard to imagine you'll ever have another normal day, don't rule out the chance that you won't.