The Truth That Saved My Life

In 2023 I found out that I had a 10cm cancerous tumour. I had a very rare form of ovarian cancer and I had to undergo major surgery to remove it as well as what felt like all of my internal organs. They even extracted an extra one they hadn't planned to take out! And people wonder why I've lost weight!

Anyway, thankfully, the cancer was contained to the tumour and hadn't spread and I am now cancer free.

See what I've done is told you the ending before the beginning- I really need to go back to the start and explain the truth that saved my life because honestly, that's the part that gets interesting!

I had very recently come back to church after a few years of living life my own way and doing what I wanted; walking without God in my life. After settling in, I took up my prayer life again and began to get serious with God. And I mean serious- I wasn't playing around anymore.

As a side note, I should tell you, I have MS (Multiple Sclerosis) and so I have health issues that play up and make my life complicated. At this time, I had began having problems with a few UTIs which led my doctor to get me checked out at the hospital. Turns out I was actually retaining urine. Fun times.

Now here comes the really fun part and the bit I find difficult to talk about and is incredibly hard for me to type right now: they fitted me with a catheter. Yep, they sent me home with a catheter because I was retaining urine and they told me it was my MS.

My world came crashing down around me.

I would just like to point out that I had never had problems with my bladder regarding MS and I wasn't currently having an MS relapse, so therefore I shouldn't be suddenly having bladder problems like that out of nowhere. I pointed this out to everyone medical but no one would listen.

So I took it to the only One who would listen, I took it to God and I prayed like never before and I felt God remind me, during my prayer, about a cyst that had been found a few years beforehand. I felt Him impressing on me that it needed to be checked out.

I immediately called the medical team I was registered under and was immediately told it couldn't be the cyst causing the bladder problems. I went back to praying and again felt the same things from God, so I called my GP and got through to a doctor who has known me for years and knows my medical history so well. She is fantastic.

She listened to me!

She sent me for an emergency scan within a coupe of days!

Long story short...that cyst had mutated (their words not mine) into a 10cm cancerous tumour.

Had I not gone back to church, had I not took up my prayer life again, had I not started my walk with God again... I wouldn't be here now to tell my testimony.

The cancer was caught at stage 1A- ovarian cancer rarely ever gets caught that early as it's a silent killer. By the time you know about the symptoms, it's too far gone to do anything about it.

Mine was also a very fast growing tumour, it would've advanced quickly according to what they told me.

By the grace of God I am still here today, because I came home and I turned to Him and invited Him into my life and walked with Him. Because I prayed with Him, because I opened up my life and my heart to Him again and I listened to Him.

Life is too short to make the wrong decisions, to be in this world without Him, to be on the wrong side of the tracks.

I am a different person to who I was before the cancer... and I thank God for that. I don't like the person I was pre cancer. But that's another story for another time.

The truth that saved my life, is God.