a shock

No breast cancer in my family either. For a while I was very angry as to why I had to be the special one. Initially only very close family was told but my husband told the neighbours as I think he needed some support that wasn't my side of the family and his family live a long distance.

Once I had the surgeries I was  a bit more confidant in telling others and even did day by day updates on my face book on my chemo treatment. Out of the wood work came others who's mothers had had bc before so they had a bit of an insight of what mum went thru via my side effects and outlook on it all.

It did also make a lot of my girl friends get their butts in and have a mammogram, something some of them had been putting off a long time. Fortunately no one had anything to report so it was just me with the bc.