I am in the UK where we have a wonderful National Health Service,
women at the age of 50 have free mammograms, and I was given a routine test, it turned out that i had breast cancer, I had no idea I had it and if it hadn't been for the free mammogram I don't know what would have happened!
I had lost my husband Bruce, aged 49, to brain cancer 6 months prior and I was so scared for my daughter who was just 10 at the time as she was just getting over his death and now I had cancer too!
I was treated at the same hospital as him and at first the nurses thought I was at the hospital as a volunteer as I had helped when Bruce was there and they were so shocked when I said I was now a patient! I had 8 weeks of radiotherapy, it became very painful as it made my skin raw, but the care and attention I received was second to none!
we are extremely lucky in the UK to have a free national health service as I could not have coped with out their help!
Chester, United Kingdom
