Hi I’m Alev and I’m new here, I’ve had thyroid cancer a couple of years back and had a full thyroidectomy due to cancer on both sides and spreading to my lymph nodes. To explain my story I need to go back to the beginning about over 10 years ago when I first started having symptoms and problems. For all that time I’ve been sent to hospital and doctors but no one took my symptoms seriously, up until I went back to my Gp and complained about everything that happened.
After an apology I was sent to see a specialist consultant who even then didn’t want to do anything, I was persistent and adamant that I wasn’t going to leave he’s consulting room until he agreed to do something about it, in my scans and biopsies something did show but I was told that it’s nothing to worry about, anyway had my first surgery. About 2-3 weeks later I had a phone call telling me that they had found cancer, and was asked if I wanted my other thyroid taken out as there was a very big chance of it being on that side too. So during my 2nd surgery I had cardiac arrest and caught an infection. Came home not knowing anything about this, I became so unwell that I couldn’t breathe and my coughing was so bad that my muscles in my chest tore and bleed, so rushed back to hospital was told that I had internal bleeding and during my 3rd surgery I had another cardiac arrest, was put into a coma. Was given 50% chance of survival. 4-5 days later woke up and now I’m here trying to help others as a cancer life coach! But I am left with a paralysed vocal cord which can cause me to be out of breath and tired, but a small price to pay for my life.
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