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By: joyce castillo
I am a 51-year-old women who loves to stay fit and work out. One morning while getting ready for work while in the shower and while doing my self breast exam, I found a lump. Thinking it was nothing I continued to shower, but just having the woman's intuition that something wasn't just right. I did the self check one more time, and this time I became scared. How could someone who still has her periods on a regular basis who doesn't smoke or drink and who doesn't have a history of cancer get it? But just to make sure I went and had a mammogram and ultrasound done. Those days just waiting for the results felt like forever. Then being told that there was an abnormal size lump and being told that you need to do a biopsy, I just felt that this was going to be bad. I will never forget that day when i was told "YOU HAVE BREAST CANCER."My whole life as I had known it would forever change. Through the American Cancer Society network, I have found much needed help and information and support that I never knew was out there. I have since had a mastectomy and am now starting chemo. I have found much courage and strength from women who have gone through this and have lived to talk about it. I will be one of those women one day who can say same the thing and I will be there for the next person who needs a shoulder to cry on or a person to confide in. HOPE IS ALIVE - FOR WITHOUT HOPE THERE WOULD BE NO STORY TO BE TOLD
waialua, HI