Someone once said, "Breast Cancer does not define me as a women, but my battle with breast cancer does." Honestly those few but powerful words are about as close it gets to the truth.
In 2006 I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. My boys were just six and nine years old at the time. As a mother my heart broke as they struggled to come to terms with my diagnosis. For over a year I listened to my sons ask if I was going to die.This is now 2009 and I am still standing here. I had no idea three years ago at the age of 32 I would be counted among any kind of statistics. Yet I was and today I am counted as a survivor. Even though my triple negative breast cancer only counts for 10-20% of the breast cancers found I am a survivor and what a powerful word it is too!
So with a bit of humor and some frustration I live my life proudly as a uniboober. I did lose my left breast and under went chemo. But I also see the silver lining in my battle with breast cancer too. I am now a part of a very special and beautiful group of men and women who call themselves survivors. Honestly, after all the struggles, the battles and the hardships I would have it no other way because in the end I would not change a thing.
The truth is this: I have lived with breast cancer, the loss of my left breast, a bald head, a complete lack of eyebrows and eyelashes, not to mention the drama of having my nails fall off. Did I like it? No, absolutely not! But it is my life, my burden and now my cause.
Katy, TX
