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Women Helping Women Fight Cervical Cancer

The Shawna Kilbert Project - PO Box 3768 - Clovis, CA 93613

This is my story as sad as it might be its my life, my reality I live and breath it everyday with no escape. A friend of mine that recently passed away from Cancer said living with Cancer is like being a ping pong ball in the middle of a hurricane and you cant get out. Let me take you back to the perfect summer. The summer of 2006 Dan, Preston, Logan and I traveled to Hawaii and Europe. We spent countless days traveling and laughing. Life was great we were living the American Dream. We had two beautiful boys and were expecting our third child on March 7th 2007. We arrived home late on August 13th reported to work on the 14th (Dan and I were both teachers for Fresno Unified) and I miscarried our third child on August 15th, 11 weeks along my world was rocked. That was on a Tuesday and by Friday I went back to work. On my way back home I picked up the mail to find a letter that stated that I needed to report to the Oncology office that following Tuesday. Knowing what the word Oncology meant I felt the world spin around me. Meanwhile I was having friends and family arrive at my house to help celebrate my sons first Birthday the following day. So I found out that I had Cancer over the phone. I went from having a wonderful vacation, going back to work, miscarrying, having cancer and that I would have to have a hysterectomy and that I would never be able to have children in a one week period. Talk about a week from Hell. I could not believe that I had Cervical Cancer. I did everything right. I have never missed an annual Doctors appointment, never had an abnormal pap smear, or HPV and I had just had a baby 10 months prior. I had been to my OBGYNs a lot. So what went wrong. My Doctors still cant explain it to this day. I fell in the 30 percent of woman that this would happen to. I was staged at a 1B1 the cancer was in my cervixs only and had not entered into any of my lymph nodes. What would take place the following few months was an up and down roller coaster ride. On September 7th,2006 I had a hysterectomy, in October I did a round of IVF. We have our eggs stored at Stanford. In November they moved my Ovaries out of the radiation zone and from Thanksgiving to December 29th I lived in Palo Alto and did my Radiation treatments at Stanford Hospital. Let me remind you with every surgery came complications. If the Doctor said you had a 3% chance of something happening to me it happened. I was in and out of the hospital. In April I finally made it back to work for 7 days when my right ovary twisted, cut the blood flow and made the ovary turn 10 cm in size. It was removed and I was back out of work again, with every major surgery I was not able to pick my children up. We thought the worse was behind us. Dan and I had found a surrogate, we were getting ready to expand our family and get on with our lives. My Doctor gave me a clean bill of health to have it crash down on me once again. On July 16th 2007 I found out the Cancer had spread to my lungs. I only had a 5 % chance of this happening. So now Im staged at a level 4. Metastasis cervical cancer that is currently in my lungs, pelvic area and liver. How was this possible. The Cancer had spread through my blood vessels and is in my blood stream. I was basically told by my doctor at Stanford that I had 6 months to 5 years tops to live and that I would never see my 40th birthday, the research is depressing! So now I am doing Chemotherapy. When I stop responding to one drug they start another. It is what it is. I have had my dreams crushed. I only have one dream left and that is to raise my boys who are 5 years old and 3. I live for them. My life is in Gods hands. I pray for a miracle daily and hope that I will be able to raise my children.

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