This is my family's journey, fight, and experiences with cervical cancer.

A little background about me... I am a lucky wife to one of the most wonderful husbands ever, Tucker.  I am a very blessed mother of 5 beautiful children, Breana, 15; Regan, 12; Meriah, 11; Caleb, 7; and Emma, 5.  I am also currently in Nursing School, about to graduate in May!  So this should be a most exciting time for me, nearing the end of over 2 years of hard work and seeing the rewards of all the handwork and sacrifice, but now I am fighting cancer.

Now background about finding out I have cervical cancer... in November I had my annual pap smear, no calls from the doctors office, so I assumed everything was normal.  A month or so later I got a letter, it was a typed, form letter stating that I needed to come in for a regular scheduled screening, handwritten on the side was the word colposcopy.  Being so busy in school, I thought if it is just a regular screening, it can wait.  A couple of weeks ago, I got the same letter by certified mail.  I decided I needed to look up Colposcopy and see what it was.  It is a follow up screening for abnormal pap smears.  I tried not to be nervous because I know that tests can have false positives.  I have always had normal pap smears so I thought I shouldn't really have much to worry about.

I think Tucker was a little nervous.  He decided he would go with me, which I am so glad he did.  A colposcopy is similar to a pap smear.  They use a vinegar solution that causes precancerous or cancerous cells to turn white and the doctor uses these binoculars for examination.  If they see any areas of concern, they then can do a pinch biopsy.

During my exam, I could tell by the face of my doctor that it was not really what he expected to see.  He said he believed it was mild or moderate precancerous.  He took 2 pinch biopsies, they are the size of a match head.  So now we wait...