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We are fortunate that our patients are happy to share their story with you to let you know that you’re not alone in your journey.
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Barb's story - On losing one?s hair |
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"On the day my hair all came out I was in the shower. It just came out in clumps and I wasn't sure what to do with it and I couldn't get it off my hands and body." |
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Last Updated on Thursday, 01 February 2007 19:24 |
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A humorous mastectomy story |
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One girl who had had a mastectomy (double maybe) was out with her
girlfriends one night dancing away and having a great time when a guy just
attached himself (literally) to her. He kept pawing & groping her and
wouldn't take a hint, even after being told to P off. Until finally she
turned to him and said "If you like them so much here, have them!!" And
pulled out her bra inserts and handed them to him!! Well he ran for cover,
everyone apparently on the dance floor went very quiet as their jaws hit the
floor and her friends all burst out laughing! |
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"I had just turned 40 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in January 2001. Having just helped support a good friend through breast cancer, I did have some knowledge of what to expect, but nothing could prepare me for my own roller coaster ride that was about to begin." |
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"I tried to smile at all times and kept thinking that I had to control it, I couldn’t let it control me! Besides, I only had to look at my beautiful boys’ faces to realise I had too much to live for. I tried never to listen to sad stories, but focused on the positive ones with happy endings." |
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Lorraine's Lymphoedema Control |
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"I can’t think of any reason why I should have got it then but like breast cancer it does not discriminate between the good or the bad things we do, it sometimes just happens, and as we know we can’t say who will or who won’t get it, but once you have developed Lymphoedema we have to get on with helping ourselves get it under control." |
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"Inspiration is a gift, and Gloria gives it in abundance to all she meets. Diagnosed with breast cancer in April 1993, and undergoing a whole gamut of treatment since then, she tells how blessed her life has been." |
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"I didn’t have a lump," said Denise Goodsell. One morning while performing breast self examination Denise discovered an area of thickening in her right breast. When she pressed on the area the skin didn’t bounce back." |
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"A long time ago people were ashamed," Emma says. Which is why she said most people died because they "waited too late." Emma said, "I can remember when I went into surgery, there were so many young doctors there to watch the operation." The doctors told her that she was cut so terribly that she was in the hospital for six weeks." |
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"In mental health we use the butterfly as a symbol of transformation, rebirth, an event to focus the consumer on the future. We could well use the same symbol for women diagnosed with DCIS." |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:19 |
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"I was in a dream. My world had gone crazy. Here I was in my dear family doctor’s rooms talking about cancer in my breast. He did not say that it was cancer – he couldn’t, but I knew as soon as I saw the small ‘malignant’ shadow. What was I going to do?" |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 24 January 2007 13:35 |
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