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Jo-Anne Campbell, a diabetic survivor My journey started off very strange, with my sister having a dream in 2010 that I will die in January 2011. She has a foresight for these things. I put this dream of Her’s aside just to be confronted with a hard reality in January 2011. It was a very hot day as I remember and I decided to drink my husband’s last beer in the fridge. After falling asleep for a few hours, I woke up in pain with my abdomen looking 9 months pregnant. After seeing specialists and having tests and scans done it was determined that my liver was the issue. The scans showed my liver, which looked like pencil holes punched in it. It contained 43 tumors called adenomas in it. Each tumor has a possible 3 percent of becoming cancerous. One of the tumors had bled inside itself and became hard. It measured 5 by 7 cm in size. At this stage I developed diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. My specialist did not know what the tumors were exactly or how to treat them. Fortunately, I was referred to the best liver specialist in Africa. He could only remove 4 tumors as the liver and the tumors were meshed or fused together. There was just too many and because it was my hormones causing these tumors. I could not receive a liver transplant as my body would only make more tumors. The specialist did the surgery and it was successful, I manage to lose 20 kg but after a few years the weight started to pile back on and I weighed close to 110 kg. With this increase in weight my diabetes spiraled out of hand and no medication could help bring the sugar levels down. I was at this point very unhealthy and having to manage my increased blood pressure and diabetic medication. Every time the diabetic nurse saw me, she recommended to my doctor that they increase the insulin. In the end I was on 120 units of insulin per day. I spoke to my doctor and told him I feel like I am dying and I know I will not make it to 50 and my youngest child was only 3 years old at the time. With that he gave me my last and most invasive option. Bariatric surgery, better known as a gastric bypass. That surgery happened in 2019 and has been very successful thus far. My diabetes disappeared within 4 days, as well as my high blood pressure and cholesterol. It is by no means a quick fix. Life as I knew it change drastically for me, especially after loosing 35 kg in 10 months. I am able to do things like running, weight lifting and many other physical activities I never thought I would attempt. After going through this whole experience and supporting me during my journey, my husband inspired me to write a book about my transformation and how it has totally changed my life. I would like to share my journey with others to let them know determination and the will to live is very strong in all of us, and we should make the decision to move forward in spite of what is happening in our lives or with our health and have no regrets after.

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