I was diagnosed in 2007 with Breast Cancer Stage 1 - Grade 8 and was told it was extremely close to the bone but my mastectomy and six months of chemo and three months of radiation gave me 7 years of clear blood tests. Late last year and early this year i began to have similar symptoms to the first time, always at the doctor and course after course of Antibiotics not working.
After our dream cruise to Hawaii to celebrate our 40th anniversary i went back to my doctor and told her the cancer was back - i knew it inside me but there was no way i was not going to Hawaii with my husband who had planned it with precision and absolutely spoilt me rotten.
My oncologist was in shock as i had seen him in February and the bloods were telling him nothing although i knew something was different, by April my eye was drooping i had pneumonia and a lump in my neck. Immediately he had me shipped off for a biopsy the same day and on instinct he did a bone scan, and two cat scans and heart scan.
The results showed i was now in Stage 4, with the cancer having moved into my lymphatic system, and just in the lung, the shock for me was that it was in the bone and very extensively, throughout the skeleton. That was not new and must have been there the whole seven years. Now we are mid chemotherapy and its rough, the hair fell out i look like an alien, i have been blessed to work from home and as you see in the picture sometimes the pain is bad and this is the only way i can work, this is my mobile office - my corner of the world for now.
I am fighting, with my team of warriors, led by my husband who is amazing, my children, my team at work, my boss, and my prayer warriors around the world. Together we will beat this - again God willing. Amen.
Lephalale, South Africa
