My story is fresh as my battle started when midnight struck for 2009!! It was New Years Day and the school holidays.I just came back from the swimming with my two daughters aged 6 and 10. I was walking up the driveway and had a massive pain in my right breast later I examine myself and felt not one lump but four!!! Headed to my GP followed by ultrasound, mammagram and a week later the news.. You have grade 3 aggressive cancer and will have to have your breast cut-off.Yes that is how the GP told me. I ran out of the office into my daugheter's arms. My husband later feel to his knees I thought I was a dead woman. So then I had an appointment wih my specialist who handed me a book Breast cancer information book which saved my life!!! It had all the information needed and helped me through the next 9 months. I had three surgery's full mastectomy, full lympos nodes removed, reconstruction all this happened in Feburary. Followed by six months of chemo and today just finished five weeks of radiation.
I feel like crying a river I am so happy and hope it is all over. So now at this moment I am helping a lady that I meet in the hosiptal that is having a mastectomy on Thursday. All is that I can say is don't worry how your body looks like be happy that you are still here!!!!!
Melbourne, Australia