It was June 2008 and my father in law died on the 24th June of terminal cancer we had cared for him the six months of his life I had a puckering in my left breast at this point and it started to get very painful , I didn't say anything to anyone especially my husband as he was grieving so much at this point we booked a holiday to Portugal with our best friends Stuart and Jayne and the children as a starting point of living without dad , I couldn't tell anyone as I didn't want to spoil the holiday so we went and I managed to get away without telling but on our return I promised myself I would come clean so in the September I shown my husband and he made me promise to go to the doctors the next day and there the cycle begins diagnosed within two weeks had a mastectomy in October and chemo started in the November and not only that we have a got a autistic son who didn't understand why mummy and daddy so upset and he didn't understand what was going on, trying to keep things normal at home for our son was my main priority , but then disaster struck again on my second chemo I had a stroke , my husband thought I was going to die I was determined not to, all I could think is I got to get out of this hospital as it was Christmas and I needed my son to have a one with his mummy and daddy... I did recover and kept positive throughout the rest of my chemo then they discovered I had a hole in heart which had caused the stroke got that fixed thought that was it, then all the problems happened with my womb three operations later and a partial hysterectomy in June 2013, finally on the way back to normality my husband being fantastic throughout in looking after myself and our son ... July 11th 2014 I am finally being signed off ...... I survived

Michelle Bett
Wombourne, United Kingdom