My sister is my inspiration she has had breast cancer and is in the 1% with severe lymphodemia, she is in hosp every 8 wks, it went down to 4 but now they have changed her antibiotics so is back to 8 thank god. After her op she started rowing in Dragon Boats Racing and even represented Australia in Germany. My mother has also had it twice in the same breast, both only had lumpectomies, but mother had the one breast off the second time. both doing well now.
My story started Christmas 04, felt lump but took me 2 weeks to go to docs, had mamo and ultra and was told to honeycombed to be anything, still they did a fine needle biopsy, Christmas Eve I got the news POSITIVE, I had no feeling was numb, told family who where coming to my place for Christmas lunch ( im the youngest of 8) kept my mind of things. Was booked in for core needle 2 weeks later as everything shut over Christmas, confirmed booking day before, get there they dont do it, its next door, they booked out for 4 weeks, I was a mess, my partner then rang Westmead Hospital and explained and was in next day, 2 days late CONFIRMATION. Had all the usual appointments and decided to have Bilateral Mastectomy, i also decided to have expanders put in at the same time. Over next 6 mths had Chemo, lost hair and had pump ups. got through that yr.
This yr I had a full Hysterectomy as a precaution, took me 4yrs to decide as was a lot to get my head around. now im just taking one day at a time, live love and enjoy life to the fullest as you never know what may happen!!!!
Sydney, Australia