My family and friends and God pulled me through my journey with breast cancer at 36 years young with 4 little children and a wonderful husband.
I was breast feeding my one year old son when I felt a lump. I didn't do anything about it until my friend, who just happened to work in a breast cancer clinic before she was a stay home mom, told me to go have it checked out. She knew. Still I put it off. The actual event that made me have an examination, was my mother's diagnosis of esophageal cancer. We actually had chemo at the same time. What a drain on our family.
After a lumpectomy, chemo, radiation, herceptin, and tamoxifen, I am cancer free and I intend to stay that way. My mother is also cancer free and intends to stay that way. We are grateful to good medical care and great doctors who literally saved our lives simultaneously.
I am thankful for my family and friends who were available to meet all the practical needs in life like food and laundry and childcare so that I could recover. I am thankful to God who put those people in our lives to take care of us when we needed it most.
3 years later I am back to my life with a thankfulness for both the big and small things in life.
Brookline, NH