Leona Macken

So they were like, yeah, it is cancer.

They were like, I said, am I looking at a hysterectomy hair?

And they were like, possibly cancer.

But they were like, we've no like, you know, scans done and we need to see like what the stories, what stage you're at or whatever.

So when I got the scans and that done, they kind of reassured me, look, you're stage 1B2, you're fine.

Like your tumour, it was like under 2.4 centimetres or something like that.

They were like, we're going to do the radical hysterectomy.

And I was like, whatever, like do whatever you have to do.

Like take my arms off if you have to have two babies at home.

Like I want to stay here for them, you know.

and it didn't even enter my head at the time to be like oh my god a hysterectomy means I can't have any more kids like I literally didn't register anything I was like do whatever you have to do and they were like you know we're going to leave the ovaries because you won't go straight into menopause and blah blah blah and I was like yeah grand so I think it all happened really quickly I was in for the hysterectomy about two weeks later

And when I woke up then from that, they were kind of like, OK, it's in lymph nodes as well.

We had to take two lymph nodes.

And I decide and I was like, I don't know what that meant.

You know, I was like, all right, yeah, grand.

And yeah, I was in hospital for four days.

It was very much like having a section.

I thought, you know, that I had had two sections.

So I just kind of felt like that really.

Came home, kind of rested for about two weeks.