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HUMP TIME for Radiation = Cancer Survivor??
Today feels like a HUMP day - when Ive come to the top of the hill and my life is changing - cannot explain it all, but from today things will be different in. my life. Its 50 years today since my Mu...
Some people don't like the term "survivor" but others really embrace it.
For me - I decided I was a survivor the day I found my lump. My GP couldn't feel it and the mammogram 6 months earlier didn't detect it either. The ultrasound confirmed its existence and even while I waited for the results of the biopsy I decided that I had beaten it.
I remember thinking "You thought you could hide but I found you and now I'm going to get you before you get me!"
There are no rights and wrongs with breast cancer - there just is what there is.
Good luck.
For me - I decided I was a survivor the day I found my lump. My GP couldn't feel it and the mammogram 6 months earlier didn't detect it either. The ultrasound confirmed its existence and even while I waited for the results of the biopsy I decided that I had beaten it.
I remember thinking "You thought you could hide but I found you and now I'm going to get you before you get me!"
There are no rights and wrongs with breast cancer - there just is what there is.
Good luck.