Cancer Has Destroyed My Sex Life

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4.6 • 6.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 9 minutes

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After multiple surgeries and radiation treatments for cancer of her reproductive system, Debra is terrified to get back in the sack with her husband. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111.
0:12.4	Deborah, welcome to the program.
0:15.0	Hi, Dr. Laura.
0:17.0	Hi, what's up?
0:19.0	I have a question.
0:20.0	Well, I just finished a year and a half of chemo and radiation and some tree.
0:30.0	They ruined my uterus and everything
0:35.0	just for my cervix because they couldn't get to them.
0:38.7	They were too mush.
0:41.3	And the doctors said they just needed to take care of it.
0:46.1	35 radiation, 30 internal, I mean 30 external
0:51.6	and 4 internal. So that was oh my gosh this is pretty traumatic
0:56.6	yeah it is I did well I haven't been to the doctor in probably 30 years.
1:02.7	So when I went a year ago, that's what I found that was going on in my body.
1:08.5	But the doctor told me two months ago that I could start having, we could start having, and of course,
1:14.8	and she was just so glad that everything worked out the way it did and so was I, but I'm just so scared.
1:21.6	I'm just so scared to even do anything.
1:24.0	It's not fair to my husband.
1:28.0	He's been wonderful.
1:29.0	He stood by me the helpful time, but I'm just, I start to think about it in Saturday when I got up in the morning and said you know what we'll have intercourse today and then as a day went through I just hold it.
1:40.0	I started googling stuff and I was like maybe not today and he's like that trying.
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