So this week is a milestone for me, its 5 years since I was diagnosed with Breast Cancer. I bounce back in my mind to this time 5 years ago, although I talk to you all and write about it a lot I don’t think anything I write or say captures what the past 5 years of my life have been like the only way I can describe it is a rollercoaster there is no other word that could capture my journey.
5 years on and when I reflect I now acknowledge my diagnosis brought with it so many changes to my life some good and some bad but the good heavily outweighs the bad. I resent cancer, like I mean I detest it, nothing can make you crumble like hearing that word, it’s one of the biggest villans in the story called life, but you know what I love, I love humans, I love our resilience, our natural instinct to survive, to come together and rise above adversity.
When diagnosed I made a decision that after my treatment I would move forward with my life, try achieve dreams I had once let escape me and do the stuff that I had put off until a better time came along. Time is precious for me these days so 
I don’t waste a minute, I savour them. Everything that matters, really matters to me. My son, my family, my relationship and my friendships all of the stuff money can’t buy. I am regularly drawn to the area where I spent a great deal of my childhood, the happy memories still linger, there is nothing I like better than to walk and enjoy the moment.
It’s amazing I’ve spent all week reflecting but not one other person has remembered what was happening to me this time 5 years ago and maybe that’s a good thing maybe I have come so far that in their minds it’s a distant memory or maybe they just don’t understand.
During the last 5 years I have met many wonderful people who also had Breast Cancer, this bit is where I stall when I reflect, several of those lovely women are no longer with us, they didn’t loose any fight because they all fought hard not one of them were happy with the hand they were dealt and each funeral attended made me feel so resentful towards cancer robbing us all of such precious people.
5 years ago I knew nothing about Breast Cancer, now I campaign to educate other girls so they won’t be as clueless as I was. This time 5 years ago, I was devastated and traumatised, I never imagined my life would turn out as it has, so in that there is HOPE. If you are newly diagnosed please know I was once where you are, and look at me now.
I might feel fearful at times, I might suffer with anxiety but I AM HAPPY xxx
Congratulations. I was 5 yrs all clear 3 wks ago. It is a huge life changer. Life never is the same. Sumtimes it’s hard 2 remember how difficult and frightening it all was but it’s always in the back of our minds. I to have lost a great friend I made from having this horrible disease. Thank God 5 yrs later I am here 2 tell my story and please God in another 5 we will be still here. Best wishes.