I am a young person who is starting life over as a cancer survivor. My cancer was directly caused by my obesity. The torture of these twelve long months of treatments along with the life long scare of recurrance is enough. I'm only 33, and cancer took an entire year of my life, along with my uterus, ovaries, and 18 lymphnodes. I will never be able to experience pregnancy and having a child. My weight raises the risks of things going wrong again - I'm already in a very high risk group ...

I am a young person who is starting life over as a cancer survivor. My cancer was directly caused by my obesity. The torture of these twelve long months of treatments along with the life long scare of recurrance is enough. I'm only 33, and cancer took an entire year of my life, along with my uterus, ovaries, and 18 lymphnodes. I will never be able to experience pregnancy and having a child. My weight raises the risks of things going wrong again - I'm already in a very high risk group because the cancer spread to my lymph vascular system. And, for something a little lighter in subject, my fiance and of nearly ten years and I are finally getting married this December (2013). I'd like to be healthy - weight and cancer-wise- and, hopefully, have enough hair grow back to be able to style it.

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