'If not for Jade, I would not have been reminded to book in. I don’t know how long I would have left it.'
At the test, my nurse told me that my cervix looked healthy. However, within days, I was called to go to colposcopy. This is when the worry set in.
I’m so grateful that Jade shared her story and made her tragically short life have such an enormous positive impact on the world. The next few months were a total blur. I was diagnosed with stage two cervical cancer and needed a hysterectomy to treat it.The cancer had spread to my lymph nodes in my groin, so I also had chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which was incredibly difficult.
After what I have been through, I can’t say how thankful I am that Jade’s story was so well-publicised. My consultant told me that if I had left going for my smear test for even one month later, my outcome would have been very different.
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