Age: What are your career goals? I would eventually like to work in a cancer organization, possibly as a counsellor or as a fundraiser organizer. I generally just want to help people. My beautiful daughter, Brynn, was born on July 29, My husband and I had been married for six years, and I had wanted a baby for a long time.
Six weeks after she was born, I went for my routine follow-up and pap test with my gynecologist and went about my life not thinking anything of it. One month later I got a phone call saying the tests had come back abnormal, and I needed to have another test done. An appointment was set up for the following month. Still, I thought nothing of it. I have a friend who had abnormal cells before, and just had to go have them removed; I figured mine would be similar.
On November 19 I went for my biopsy and colposcopy, and even the doctor thought it would turn out as nothingβat worst it would be the HPV virus which she said would be entirely manageable. On December 19, , exactly one month later, I got my results.
The phone rangβmy daughter was four and a half months old and napping, my husband was at work, and I was alone. I acted very in control of the situation on the phone with the doctor.
I mean, what good was it going to do to cry to her? I held it together, but I started to cry as soon as I got off the phone.
