My name is Carrie and I am a survivor of ovarian cancer. It all started when I was pregnant with my first and only child. I went through 14 hrs of labor and the lil’ guy didn’t want to come out. So they finally decided to do a c-section. When they got in, the doctor noticed a mass on my left ovary. He removed it, not thinking it was cancer at all.

A week later, I went in with my husband for the suture removal, and I asked if they had found out anything about the mass that he removed. Remind you, I didn’t think anything about it either. The doctor just came out and told us it was cancer. I looked at my husband in shock and he was just staring at the floor. Of course I burst into tears and just kept looking at my son thinking that I wasn’t going to see him grow up. All these things kept running through my head. It was stage 1 so that was good. I had to have a full hysterectomy when my son was 10 days old. My husband was the most amazing person I know through all of it. Then I started chemo.

My husband and I had met on a blind date. We were married six months later and I was pregnant one month after the wedding. We named our son Joss which means “fate”. And I think it is fate that Joss waited so long to come out cause he wanted the doctors to find my cancer. Joss is my life saver, and I will forever be grateful for him and my husband.