First time
This is the very first time I've created a blog, LOL. Being my age you'd think I have already began one being Gen Y.
Well it has been 3 years since my first cancer diagnosis and 9 months since my diagnosis of metastisised cancers. I knew I'd be abe to get through breast cancer with chemo, radio, surgery and reconstruction but nothing prepared me for a secondary diagnosis. I was a wreck.
It made me keep thinking 'Why me?' like so many other women in Aust. Why, why, why, why. I knew when I was younger that my grandmother on my dad's side died from breast cancer (she refused treatment and it travelled to her brain) over 30 yrs ago and my dad died from liver cancer on my 21st bday. I thought 'keep healthy cause you need to deal with this later in life.' At that stage I was working as a manager of a fast food restaurant, married, no kids. I changed jobs, lost that, my marriage failed and I was alone. It wasn't until I found the love of my life who was working with me at the restaurant 10 yrs ago; we found each other on Facebook and he moved down from QLD to SA to be with me. It wasn't until a year later I found a mass in my left breast.
Throughout school I've learnt that it's ok, normal to have one breast bigger than the other and that was the case with my left breast. No major differences, no leaking of the nipple, no puckering, nothing abnormal about the left breast but I always knew it was that just bit bigger through my life. This mass was in my left breast and naturally I panicked. After many doctors (who all said it's probably nothing, cyst or calcification), mammograms, ultrasounds, CT scans and it was a biopsy that confirmed Stage 3 aggresive cancer HER2. I was like 'No, no, no you are not going to take me at such a young age!!' 28 years old. I am a stubborn person so I was very determined to beat it.
And I did . . .
Until October 2012 when I found it had spread to my bones and liver :(
