Hi my name is Wendy and I had breast cancer in 2003. I am now a 7 year survivor. Fortunately, they caught mine early enough that it did not spread anywhere. I did go through some aggressive chemotherapy and lost my hair after only one week. I think that's the worst part. Losing your hair can be pretty devastating to a woman. The wigs are sooo itchy and hot. I usually wore bandanas. Work was nice enough to let me wair all sorts of different hats. I think I had 4 wigs. One day I was a blonde, the next a redhead. That was pretty cewl!!! I would get a lot of second looks when I wore a different wig the following day that I previously had worn something else. I think people were not sure whether to ask or not.
After the chemo was finished, life pretty much went back to normal. I had left masectomy with reconstruction done all in the same day. Pretty cewl tho, to wake up with bigger breasts, considering I had mosquito bites before. lol. I have to consider myself very lucky that I survived it all and was truly miraculous how I actually discovered that I had breast cancer. I was lying in my bed one evening watching a movie and happened to feel around my breast area only to discover what I thought was a lump. When I had it checked, the spot I had discovered was actually nothing but my breast bone but around deep down further was where the spot actually was. Weird how nothing was where I assumed it was yet it was like someone or something told me I needed to be checked. So please get it checked out. Someone may be trying to tell you something too!!!
Springfield, IL
