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Jenni's Screening Story
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Hello Jenny,
thanks for joining me today.
Um,
and if you'd like to share your cancer experience with us,
that'd be fantastic.
Yeah,
certainly.
So er hi,
my name's Jenny.
Um,
and I had um.
Bit of a close call,
you could call it
er with cervical cancer,
so I just wanna talk to you about that today.
So
I had been having my er smears
um as I was supposed to do
and I just went for a routine smear as I normally would have done.
Um,
and I,
I had a bit of bad news that there was some,
er,
abnormalities
that come back from that smear.
Um,
so
basically.
As I'm sure you well know,
um,
that gets picked up,
it gets referred on,
you go to the hospital.
Um,
I was seen by the wonderful team at,
um,
DRI Doncaster Royal Infirmary,
er,
the gynecology nurses there.
And,
um,
I
was seen about my results
and they were explaining to me that basically they had found,
um,
that I was positive for HPV
and that I also had some quite serious um cell changes and er these
were so serious in fact that they could have led to cervical cancer.
So obviously we had to do something about that.
And um
they,
yeah,
the wonderful ladies at DRI looked after me amazingly.
Um we did some tests,
had a consultation like I said.
er that all then kind of er went off and was looked at
what the best er course of action was gonna be was then decided.
And it was decided that I was gonna have those cells removed
er by a procedure called
LEETS
um which is just simply a procedure to remove
er anything in or around the cervix that is
not meant to be there.
um
so I then had another appointment
um with a consultant
and that consultant saw me for the procedure and completed that.
And um
the
the kind of general um
Process,
if you like,
after that is to leave it a few months and then we test again with another smear
um to see
if everything's as it should be.
er luckily for me it was.
So I'm incredibly thankful
um for that
like swift and efficient action,
for want of a better word,
um from the medical staff that I encountered.
Um,
and I just wanted to say like it is,
you hear these stories all the time,
but it's incredibly incredibly important that you do go for
any kind of screening,
not just smears.
Um,
anything that's available to you.
We're incredibly lucky,
um,
to live in a country where that is accessible
and available and I highly,
highly,
highly urge you
to take advantage of that.
um,
because I'd dread to think what could have happened had
that not been found,
um,
and dealt with.
So I just wanted to say today that you know
if
you're offered any kind of screening,
please my advice is to go
um
you know.
Worst case scenario with something like
what happened to me happened
um but it's not the worst case scenario is it really?
um you know you have to go through
that sort of stuff to prevent anything,
you know,
worse happening.
Um,
and,
and all being well,
you know,
in an ideal world everything's fine.
So you've lost nothing have you but um
yeah,
it was,
uh,
today was just to explain,
you know,
it's.
You can think nothing's wrong,
I had no symptoms,
um I didn't feel anything different
at all.
And er
yeah,
I'm just incredibly glad that it was picked up the way it was.
um
and it happened the way it did for me.
And er yeah,
get,
get your screenings.
Thank you very much for sharing that,
Jenny.
Can I just ask you then,
do you,
do you still go for regular screenings then?
Yeah,
so obviously,
um,
in England,
I'm not aware of the rules for Scotland and Wales,
but in England the,
um,
age has been raised to 25
for your first smear.
Um,
so I,
I highly urge you to go for that,
and if you do notice anything different sooner,
push to go sooner.
Um,
but yeah,
from,
from age 25,
you'll be sent a letter.
And um
I,
I highly encourage you
to,
to go for that.
Thank you Jenny so much for sharing that with us.
That's a really
er really positive experience.
Thank you.
Thanks for thanks for your time today.
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