Minder as drie maande nadat Janien Cronj\u00e9 se been geamputeer is, is sy reeds terug op die oefenveld waar sy spiesgooi afrig en sien sy uit om nie net binnekort weer sonder krukke te loop nie, maar ook lekker te dans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janien het vroe\u00ebr vanjaar die skoknuus ontvang dat \u2019n gedeelte van haar linkerbeen geamputeer moet word nadat osteosarkoom, \u2019n soort beenkanker, by haar gediagnoseer is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En hoewel baie mense hulle deur \u2019n kankerdiagnose laat onderkry, het die 23-jarige Janien gewys sy gaan nie ophou om aan haar drome te bou nie, en eerder haar planne \u2019n bietjie aangepas om haar drome te bereik. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janien was in haar skooljare \u2019n kranige atleet met \u2019n sterk liefde vir spiesgooi. Haar pa, Nico, is ook \u2019n bekende spiesgooi-afrigter. Janien het in sy spore gevolg en leef haar passie verder uit as spiesgooi-afrigter by skole in die Paarl en Wellington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel sy het vir \u2019n paar jaar al gereeld pyn in haar linkerknie ervaar en het dit met pynmedikasie behandel. Omdat die pyn dan vir \u2019n wyle weggegaan het, het sy nie veel daarvan gedink nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verlede jaar het die pyn egter aansienlik erger geword en nadat haar pa skielik siek geword het, het sy daarop gefokus om haar pa te help deur onder andere sy werkers te vervoer en net die pyn in haar knie met medikasie gedemper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy pa het in Januarie vir my ges\u00ea dat ek eerder dokter toe moet gaan. Die dokter het ges\u00ea hy dink ek het my kraakbeen seergemaak en my na die Paarl-hospitaal vir X-strale verwys.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy s\u00ea \u2019n CT-skandering is ook by die hospitaal gedoen, en het hulle vermoed dat daar \u2019n gewas in haar been is. Sy is daarna na die Tygerberg-hospitaal verwys, waar die dokter ges\u00ea het haar tibia lyk baie swak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janien s\u00ea \u2019n MRI-skandering en \u2019n biopsie is gedoen en osteosarkoom is twee weke later \u2013 drie dae n\u00e1 haar 23ste verjaarsdag \u2013 in haar linkerbeen gediagnoseer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie dokter het verduidelik my been sal moontlik geamputeer moet word. Ek het uitgefreak<\/i> en hy kon dit seker sien. Hy het my gerusgestel dat amputasie die laaste opsie sal wees.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janien het besluit om immunoterapie te ondergaan, wat sy s\u00ea baie goed vir haar gewerk het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie pyn het n\u00e1 \u2019n paar maande skielik ondraaglik geraak. Ons het toe na Tygerberg se onkologie-afdeling gegaan, waar ek elke vier ure 10 ml morfien teen die pyn gekry het. Ek het regop gesit en slaap, want ek kon nie l\u00ea en slaap nie, so erg was die pyn,\u201d vertel sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verdere toetse het op \u2019n latere stadium gewys die gewas druk op \u2019n senuwee, en dit is wat die erge pyn veroorsaak het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die \u201claaste opsie\u201d het vinnig \u2019n werklikheid vir Janien geword. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie dokter het my die Donderdag ges\u00ea ek het geen keuse as om my been te laat amputeer nie en ook dat die operasie die Maandag gedoen gaan word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het gehuil. Dit is \u2019n deel van my wat sedert my geboorte daar is, en dit sal net weg wees.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy vertel toe sy n\u00e1 die operasie wakker word, was sy \u2019n bietjie bang. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk wou nie afkyk nie. Ek was bang om af te kyk, want dan sou ek die werklikheid in die gesig staar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMaar n\u00e1 die operasie was die pyn weg. Ek was vir vier maande in erge pyn, en dit was weg.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens Janien het sy fisio-behandeling gekry en sy kon op die derde dag reeds die oorbly\u00adwende deel van haar been lig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy s\u00ea die terapeut het die dag toe sy ontslaan word, ges\u00ea sy het twee keuses oor hoe sy gaan reageer op mense wat na haar staar of haar uitvra oor hoekom sy net een been het, en sy sal moet besluit hoe sy daarop gaan reageer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cSy het ges\u00ea ek kan \u00f3f vriendelik wees, \u00f3f ek kan nors wees, maar ek is maar \u2019n vriendelike mens . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oor hoe sy voel wanneer sy in die openbaar is, s\u00ea sy sy ervaar wel dat baie mense na haar staar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBaie mense vra ook wat gebeur het, en dan vertel ek hulle maar. Baie kinders wat my sien, wys vir hul mammas dat ek net een been het, maar dit is kinders \u2013 dit pla my nie. Wat wel seermaak, is sekere mense se woorde.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
En hoewel Janien \u2019n baie positiewe ingesteldheid het, erken sy dit is vir haar ook moeilik omdat sy sekere basiese dinge nie meer vir haarself kan doen wanneer sy met krukke loop nie, en sy is van iemand afhanklik om haar te help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk moes myself ook vergewe het omdat ek nie vroe\u00ebr dokter toe gegaan het nie, maar ek het myself daarvoor vergewe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Verdere skanderings het gewys dat Janien nou kanker vry is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hierdie week kry sy haar tydelike prostese, en hoewel dit nie haar permanente prostese is nie, straal sy behoorlik van opgewondenheid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sien daarna uit om my eie koppie tee te dra wanneer ek die prostese kan gebruik, en om alleen in die stort te staan en om allerhande klein goedjies vir myself te kan doen \u2013 en te dans; ek wil so graag weer net dans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk sal met my kunsbeen moet leer loop, maar ek het reeds iemand gekry om my te leer dans. As ek nou nie Vrydag al kan dans nie, moet hy maar by my sit en gesels,\u201d lag sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janien s\u00ea haar eerste prioriteit gaan wees om met haar nuwe prostese te leer loop, waarna sy \u2019n werk wil kry sodat sy by \u2019n mediese fonds kan aansluit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sy het ook verlede jaar vir haar \u2019n motor gekoop, maar omdat dit \u2019n handratkas het, kan sy dit nou glad nie bestuur nie en moes sy gevolglik haar werk as au pair prysgee. \u2019n Outomatiese-motor is ook iets wat sy graag wil kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy langtermyndoelwit is om weer te kan spiesgooi en te swem. My pa rig topatlete af. Ek leer maar nog baie by hom en sal ook graag eendag \u2019n topatleet wil afrig,\u201d s\u00ea sy met \u2019n glimlag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Janien s\u00ea sy wil ook graag meer bewusmaking oor osteosarkoom kweek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Volgens haar is sy baie dankbaar vir die goeie ondersteuning wat sy van haar familie en vriende kry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk besef ook net hoe goed God is. Ek is nie lid van \u2019n mediese fonds nie, maar Hy het elke keer vir my \u2019n deur oopgemaak. Dit is vir my wonderlik hoe die Here net elke keer voorsien het.\u201d.<\/span> \u2019n Geldinsamelings\u00adfunksie, Leg 4 Janien, om die koste van Janien se permanente prostese asook ander uitgawes wat daarmee gepaard gaan te dek, word van 21 tot 23 Oktober gehou. Leg 4 Janien is \u2019n staptog van 127 km wat oor drie dae afgel\u00ea word en stappers wat deelneem, moet iemand kry om hulle per kilometer te borg. \u2019n Back-a-buddy-blad is ook begin en \u2019n dans word op 4 November by die Paarl-rugbyklub gehou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mense wat Janien se reis wil volg, kan haar op Facebook by Leg 4 Janien volg. 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