Kellie was 18 when she portrayed her weight loss to be ‘busy’. She had cervical cancer and just caught it

Kellie Richardson had her entire life for her when a simple health control derailed her course forever.

Then at the age of 18, Kellie was full of ambition and enthusiasm for having a family on a day and a dream career as an interior designer.

In reflection, she thought she was fit and healthy, but had ignored some subtle warning signals.

By the time Kellie had hit her 19th birthday, she had observed a sudden weight drop – 7 kg within a few weeks – in combination with serious attacks of fatigue. She just put it down on a new training regime and ‘super busy’.

One evening when she got in with her good friends Melbourne Where she lived, the subject of porridge outings (now known as cervical screening tests) came into conversation.

‘A few girls were gone and did one, [but] I hadn’t had one yet, “Kellie, now 45, told Femail.

“I was quite nervous about everything, especially as a young girl, not knowing how or what they do and how invasive it is on your body.”

Although Kellie did not immediately book for a cervical screening test, a strange coincidence she took as a board only a week later happened to get the appointment.

“It was weird. I had a day off and I drove back home. For some reason I went by where I used to live and where I used to go to a doctor, “she said.

“I thought I had to beat and see if they had appointments the following Monday when I had my RDO (registered day off), to see if I could come in with a female doctor to have a porridge outlook test and a general control.”

When calling, the receptionist Kelli had had a cancellation for 30 seconds before and the doctor could see her there and then if she was free.

Kellie walked back in her car and immediately went in for what she thought would be a regular, routine control that she said in the end was very ‘very relaxing’ and not a daunting as she had ever thought.

It was Wednesday at 8.30 am the following week when the doctor called with shocking news.

“She said:” Kelly, we have to get you into the specialist right away. The results have come back and you have cervical cancer, “she remembered.

The term cancer had never entered the spirit of Kellie. She was just convinced that at the age of 19 she was ‘too young’ to be her reality and to be completely unbelief about the diagnosis.

Within four weeks, Kellie was booked with a specialist, but maintained a positive attitude of ‘What Will Be’ – something that she is still maintaining today, now 45 years old.

‘At that time you do not understand what you are dealing with or what will happen. You have cancer, but [it] Maybe it’s just early stages, it might be good. You are pretty naive at that age, “she said.

At that time, Kellie’s cervical cancer stage was two with signs that it progressed quickly.

By the time Kellie reached her operating date only four weeks later, her cancer stage had reached three and scary on stage four ‘.

Kellie was also struck with a new blow, because the operation also did not reveal – diagnosed endometriosis – who grew up her extremely painful, heavy periods.

“When I was younger, I had to have medication to stop my period because it went constantly for up to six weeks, and I had big blood clots,” she said.

After ‘burning off the cancer’ as much as possible from her first first operation, the surgeons unfortunately could not get everything.

Instead, Kellie was placed in early menopause as a form of preventive treatment to stop the spread of the cancer.

After a year of painful injections with slow release in her stomach every month, Kellie’s cancer did not completely leave, but it did fall.

Then, as if the body had not endured enough, she was put by the menopause for the second time – this time with the help of a nasal spray to administer the medicine for a full 18 months, because her body did not deal with the injections well.

Kellie was 22 when her body finally went into remission, and she was given a wonderful way by doctors.

For the next five years, Kellie enjoyed her life, started a successful interior design company, appeared as an expert in popular television shows, started in a weekly radio segment and had two children.

After her second baby at the age of 28, doctors advised Kellie that a hysterectomy was in her interest, so if she wanted a third child, she should be quick.

‘I had to have a hysterectomy on 31 after my third [child] Because of the endometriosis [and] Cervical cancer … they didn’t want to risk it that came back, “she said.

In March of this year, Kellie underwent a final operation – this time to fully remove her ovaries and all remaining scar tissue from her previous trials.

“I had many growths, cysts and all kinds of things that just looked that just looked a bit suspicious,” Kellie explained about her last operation.

After no less than 26-year-old struggle with cancer flexes, an autoimmune disease and her body that endure three rounds of menopause, Kellie is finally cancer-free, happy and optimistic about her future.

When she interviewed what she learned from her cancer testing, Kellie warned of the dangers with which women are confronted by not having a regular cervical screening test.

“If something is wrong, look at it right away,” she warned. “You have one chance in life.”

And with many women who think that cancer only influences the older generation, Kellie’s story is proof that it also affects the young people, and more often that we think.

‘I have always told people to do a smear; It takes five minutes [and] They are there to save our lives. ‘