My appointment at the Hospital to get my results of Breast Cancer was one I will never forget!. It was the day the annual Garden Show was on
at the Exhibition Building opposite the Hospital......People were passing
me by in their anticipation to see this wonderful show while I felt sad at the
knowledge of the bad news that may await me!
Of course the news was what I expected and from then on my journey took me from a mastectomy to chemotheraphy to radiation.
During these sessions I met some wonderful women - one whom I will never forget who was blind and she was my inspiration.
All in all it took a year from my life - but I have survived and am grateful to have - the words ringing in my ears from the first diagnosis - "you're not the first and you won't be the last".
I continued to live as normally as I could - I walked my dogs, I shopped
with tubes hidden under my coat sitting in a plastic bag which was
draining the fluids from my carcinoma. This wasn't going to beat me!
I kept my sense of humour all through - laughing at the wig I had to wear commenting on the baldness and telling my husband that at last he had more hair than me!!
The flower show is still my reminder of the bad times which I can't forget but now after 8 years as a survivor I can appreciate the 'good times'.
I would love to donate my money to the Olivia Newton John Cancer Clinic in Melbourne, Australia!
Melbourne., Australia