Do you know any woman that just can’t wait to go see her doctor? Can’t wait for their yearly check up? I don’t. Therefore lots of women just don’t go, they simply don’t like to go, so they don’t. After you hear Diane’s story I bet anyone that reads it will make it a point to get their yearly check up.

When Diane was pregnant with her twin boys, (Carl Jaynes Jr and Volley Jaynes, II), during her many doctors appointments the doctors spotted some abnormalaties. They ran tests and found a lot of cancer cells in her uterus. As soon as her babies were born she had a partial hysterectomy. She explained, “It was awful my babies were just newborns and they had to stay in the hospital for a week or two after they were born. I was having to go through cancer and recuperate from the cesarean birth of the boys.”

Diane was like many of us and did not like to go for her yearly check ups. After the birth of her sons she had not been back for her yearly female exams.

Twelve years after the birth of her twin sons Jaynes was diagnosed with stage three ovarian cancer on March 3rd, 2010. Because she hadn’t been to the doctor for so long the cancer had spread to her stomach, kidneys and intestines. She was experiencing some pain and felt something she thought was a growth of some kind and visited a doctor in Ennis. The doctor examined her and told her she had cancer. Diane explained, “When he told me that I thought—I am going to die. I cried all the way home from Ennis. The first couple of months it was all about me. I didn’t want to see anyone, I didn’t want anyone to know. I decided I didn’t have cancer. I didn’t tell anyone and would not talk about it.”

Diane’s doctor sent her to Baylor Hospital in Dallas. Her doctor was Shanna Phelps. “She was awesome. She helped me with my chemo treatments, she treated me like I was someone she cared about. It made me feel better just being there and that is saying something because chemo is so awful. She believed in God and was always talking about God’s healing touch, God’s healing power. I feel like God led me to her,” Diane heartfully explained.

Dr. Phelps explained to Diane that when you have stage three cancer the first time she could probably cure it, the second time she could probably cure it but the third time there is nothing they can do.

Meanwhile, while Diane was going through all her cancer treatments she was being prayed for constantly. She explained, “Three or four times a week I was anointed with oil at the Frost Methodist Church and prayed over. There was a man there that they say is a healer. He was the first person to pray for me and I felt very special that he took his time and prayed for me. Pastor Leah, (pastor of Frost and Italy Methodist churches) was part of the three or four special little prayer groups that they had just for me. I had nine months of chemo and they were with me all the way praying.”

When Diane had one more chemo session left, they ran a CAT scan and found more cancer. “I went in for my last chemo treatment. I did not want to go. I was just so sick of it, I was sick of doctors, sick of nurses, I was sick of IV’s . They blew the veins out in one arm and I was just sick of needles. When they put the last IV in I was thinking thank God this is the last one. I don’t ever want to go through this again. They did a scan and I had gotten another spot. It was showing on the cat scan that another spot of cancer had come up. The cat scan highlights the cancer if there is any. I had to go in for another test to see what they were going to do about it.”

The doctors decided to do surgery. Meanwhile, back in Frost the prayer groups were continually praying for Diane. When she went in to have the cancer removed Diane explained, “I was prepped for surgery and before my doctor started the surgery she took a PET scan and there was nothing there. One week it was there and the second week it was gone.”

Diane said, "The doctor did not understand this. She said, ‘I showed you this test, it was there and now it is gone. I just don’t understand it’.

“There is no doubt in my mind that God did this. All the prayers and anointment of oil. Everyone coming and praying over me several times a week. The cancer was there and many, many prayers later the cancer was gone, there is no other explanation,” Diane tearfully explained.

Diane said she will always go and get her yearly exams and had this advice, “It is very important to get your yearly check ups. Even if you don’t like to go to the doctor. If you don’t like to go to the doctor for your female check ups- so what. There is someone in this world that needs you, whether it be your kids, your Mom, your Dad etc. Someone in this world needs you. Think of the people that need you and go to the doctor. I had to learn the hard way.”

“I tell people if they are faced with cancer just to keep the faith. If it were not for God I don’t think I would be here. I told God at the beginning of all of this that my babies need me, please don’t take me from my babies. I needed to be here with them.”

God blessed Diane with her husband Carl Jaynes of fifteen years, three boys-Michael Mitchell, her twin boys Carl Jaynes Jr., Volley Jaynes, II and two grandchildren Briana and Hayley Mitchell.