Teacher Recalls Her First And Only Symptom Of Colon Cancer At 36

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It was June 2020, and Stefania Frost's family had just gotten together at a barbecue for the first time since the pandemic started. But the next day, Frost, a second-grade teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts, noticed a pain in her right side. 'I thought it was something that I ate or some kind of stomach bug going around,' Frost, 40, tells TODAY.com. About a week later, however, the pain hadn't gone away, so she made a doctor's appointment.

So, before she started chemotherapy, Frost went through an egg retrieval cycle in the hopes of getting embryos. 'I only got one ,' she says, but the goal of getting pregnant again helped get her through an intensive three months of chemotherapy. She felt cold and her hands were numb due to side effects, and couldn't drink anything cold. Her infusions took place in the fall of 2020, early in the COVID-19 pandemic, so 'I had to be by myself, so that was hard too,' Frost says.

 

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