Calling any Kalamunda/the Mount members

Hi, hope we can get to meet sometime. I looked up your earlier blogs and saw your one about getting a second primary breast cancer in your other breast after 7 years. That must have been a hell of a shock. I had quite a good discussion about this risk with my surgeon, same guy as yours, and about the fact that my whole body has been exposed to the conditions and personal makeup that resulted in the first cancer, so there must be a raised but moderate risk of getting what you got. He agreed, and said for me it was probably about 5% chance this would happen, which is higher.  A thing I have to weigh up in a year after I finish my Herceptin, and decide whether or not to have a breast reconstruction on the first mastectomy, and possibly remove the second breast at the same time with a double reconstruction.

I imagine that it is really important to remember that you got unlucky, not that your cancer metastasized: it was a second primary, not a secondary. How are you travelling now?