This is exactly right.

My name is Stephanie.

I am 34 years old, soldier with the US Army and also a government contractor.

In 2016, right when I became a single mom of my two daughters, I went to get a pap smear.

I had only missed two pap smear before that and didn't think anything of it.

The exam itself went as normal as it could be.

It wasn't until about two weeks later that I got a call from the gynecologist herself.

Urging me to come in as soon as possible.

She offered to wave any copakes and schedule me in between clients because she said it was

absolutely urgent that I went in there.

So I went in the very next day and she called me into her office and sat me down.

And I remember mostly how happy and cheery she was in what I knew was going to be very bad

news.

She took out a paper and started with a dome panic, but we found cancer cells in your cervix.

And she explained that I had adenocarcinoma in CITU or AIS and explained to me that although

they're considered pre-cancer cells, the type of cancer itself adenocarcinoma tends to jump

membranes quicker than the other type of cervical cancer, just squamous cell carcinoma.

And she told me that I needed to schedule an appointment with the gynecologic oncologist

at the hospital down the road.

And the whole time she kept telling me not to worry that this was a good cancer and that

I'm one of the lucky ones.

I scheduled the appointment afterwards to go meet the oncologist.

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