Hi @Eastmum I’d like to share a story that got me thinking and moving again when I was having a tough moment. Last year I attended a local breast cancer group meeting and I met a quietly spoken low key lady called Yvonne in her 70s. She had had breast cancer 20 years earlier. On a trip around Australia with her husband she discovered a lump in her breast in Mackay .She had it checked out and was cancer and needed a mastectomy . Her husband and daughter share a birthday and before leaving promised wherever they were they would fly back for her daughter’s 21st. The day of her mastectomy she drove her husband to the airport for the 21st then drove herself to hospital for surgery.She was only able to stay in hospital until the Friday as at that stage it was not open weekends. Surgery 20 years ago was probably more invasive than today and she had hers in a small country public hospital not a large city teaching hospital Come Friday afternoon she went back to the caravan park to her van where she stayed with some help from neighbors until her husband returned. She is a tiny little woman who gets up for a one hour walk every morning at 6 am regardless of the weather as she says there is nothing that interrupts her at that time and she lives in the Adelaide hills on steep land. She is still cancer free , has had many trips in Australia and overseas since . She is an inspiration to me for so many reasons not the least of which is her unassuming practical nature steadfastly enjoying life.
