Die lewe van \u2019n jong volwasse vrou van Victoriapark in Somerset-Wes het handomkeer verander toe sy uitvind dat sy \u2019n seldsame mondkanker het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Klein wond op haar tong, wat as net \u2019n wond begin het, het 22-jarige Logan Abrahams se hele lewe later verander. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het die seertjie in Maart verlede jaar op my tong gesien en gevoel. N\u00e1 onderskeie besoeke en ondersoeke by die Sir Lowry\u2019s Pass-kliniek, die Helderberg-hospitaal en die Strand-kliniek, was ons moedeloos omdat ons nie antwoorde kon kry of \u2019n behandeling wat dit kon genees nie. Dit was baie moeilik om te eet en ek het baie gewig verloor. Ek is toe na \u2019n private dokter, wat my na \u2019n oor-, neus- en keel-spesialis verwys het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Logan het die nuus Donderdag 8 September gekry dat sy kanker van die tong het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie dokters by die Tygerberg-hospitaal was baie verbaas. Hulle het nog nooit di\u00e9 soort kanker in iemand so jonk soos ek gesien nie. Ons as familie was platgeslaan,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens die dokters is die kanker op haar tong die gevolg van die menslike papilloom-virus (HPV). <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Levirn Sylvester, Logan se ma, s\u00ea dit was die ergste dag van haar lewe as ma toe sy uitvind haar dogter het kanker. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk kon nie ophou huil nie. Hoekom kon dit nie net ek gewees het nie, was van die vrae wat ek die heeltyd gevra het. As die kanker net vroe\u00ebr ontdek is, sou ons nie deur al die trauma gegaan het nie. Ek het dae omgehuil,\u201d vertel Sylvester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Logan s\u00ea sy het die onmoontlike uitdaging met die hulp van God en haar familie aangepak. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het \u2019n tien uur lange operasie ondergaan, waarin die aangetaste gedeelte van my tong en ook kliere in my nek verwyder is. Ek het Maandag 21 November met bestraling begin. Die ses weke se in- en uit-ry na die Tygerberg-hospitaal was uitputtend. Elke Maandag moes ek die dokter besoek en elke Vrydag moes hulle bloed trek,\u201d s\u00ea sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die bestraling het egter sy tol begin eis en naarheid, oormatige speeksel en die onvermo\u00eb om te proe asook die verkleuring van haar vel naby haar nek en rondom haar mond was haar nuwe realiteit. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDit het \u2019n groot invloed op my menswees gehad. Ek is nie toegelaat om my hare, nek en skouers te was nie en moes uit die sonlig bly. Ek was moeg \u2013 liggaamlik en sielkundig,\u201d onthou sy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar bestralingsprogram het Vrydag 30 Desember ge\u00ebindig. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het geen onderbreking met die terapie gehad nie en ek was ontslae van die groot masker wat ek moes dra terwyl dit toegedien is.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Haar ma vertel sy het \u2019n vrees vir naalde gehad en het paniekaanvalle gekry as sy \u2019n naald gesien het. \u201cDit was wat sy als moes deurmaak, soos die slym in haar mond asook \u2019n gedeelte van haar hare wat uitgeval het. Vir haar was die grootste frustrasie dat sy nog nie reg kon praat nie,\u201d s\u00ea Sylvester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Logan vertel die dokters en radioterapie-span het haar kort hierna in kennis gestel hulle is tevrede met haar vordering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOp Woensdag 8 Februarie is geen kanker meer by my bespeur nie. Hoewel ek \u2019n bietjie moeilik praat en nog oormatige speeksel ervaar, kan ek baie beter proe hoe iets smaak. Ek sterk nou by die huis aan en vertrou God op my pad vorentoe. Ek bly positief en my volgende afspraak by die dokters is eers weer in Mei,\u201d deel Logan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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