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Mary Shares If She Takes Her Uterine Cancer Diagnoses Personally (VIDEO)

Having uterine cancer four times, Mary explains if she ever takes her diagnoses personally or wonders why it's happening to her.

Mary:
No, because I am not a victim and I won’t get on the pity pot, just won’t happen. You know, when, the last two times when I have heard it’s come back, it’s more of a financial and time issue for me than, "Oh my gosh, I have cancer," because financially, even though I have great insurance, there’s the co-pay and the deductible and it’s like, "Oh shoot, you know, there goes some recreational money yet again," plus more, and just the time.

You know, the third time I had it and I was doing the brachytherapy, again, my doctor loves dealing with my questions because I’ll say "what if" and doctors hate the "what if" questions, and so I said, "Well, what if this is cancer," and they won’t answer it, and I said to him, "Wait a minute, this is my third time, I have the right to ask that question. It’s not a drama question," and he says, "You’re right." He says, "If it does, blah, blah, blah, probably do brachytherapy, that type of thing," and I said, "Well, I am a basketball coach. Basketball starts in November. Will the therapy be over by then," and he said, "Probably not."

So I ask him questions about living life instead of questions about dying. So I coached basketball putting a folding chair at the half-court line with a whistle and yelling at the girls from there. I was a high school basketball coach for a few years. But, so that’s just, and it’s the same way I go into my yearly check-ups. It’s just the couple of weeks before the check-up it is hard because you are reminded again. You know, you’ve just lived eleven and a half months without thinking about it, and then you just go in there, and it’s a big sigh of relief when he says, "See you in a year," it’s like, "Awesome!"

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