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My Journey Through Breast
Cancer
INTRODUCTION
First of all I am no Doctor of
medicine, nor am I a scientist or a nutritionist. There are plenty of those out
there advocating, corroborating and confirming all that I say here. After all,
billions of dollars have been spent on this research over the years and I need
not add to this. What I offer in this is my story and the research I have done
to reach an understanding of where I am today.
What I am, is a mother of
three healthy children who have never been hospitalized or had surgery through
ill health. I have 5 grandchildren, I am a mother and grandmother who has
been through the process of diagnosed breast cancer prior to which, had never
been hospitalized or had surgery due to ill health. I still have my tonsils, my
adenoids and appendix and all my other internal bits.
Only
now I don’t have my breasts.
Okay,
so now that I have those couple of things off my chest…
Discovering your breast cancer, be
it through self-examination, mammogram, ultra sound, fine needle biopsy, core
biopsy or all of the above is enough to send your head reeling . Your thoughts
and reactions will vary depending on what type of lady you are and how you
normally may handle a crisis. You may experience variations between relief that
you now know it is confirmed and you can look at ways to overcome it or you may
fee utter despair and a real foreboding of impending doom. But this isn’t just
any sort of crisis, as a woman you will already have dealt with many situations
that have called for a level head and putting certain strategies in place to
overcome life’s problems. This is a life or death crisis and it is your
life that may be in question. It puts a whole new slant on things when
confronted with a possible killer like breast cancer. It may even put you more
closely in touch with your own mortality.
Results and outcomes depend
largely on which type of breast cancer you are diagnosed with. There are several
different types; some like DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma In Situ) has a very high cure
rate compared to the more aggressive types. Outcomes also depend on the size of
the cancer, its growth rate, if it has metastasized (spread elsewhere) and of
course your current overall health and attitude. Outcomes can also
depend on which choices (if any are given) you make and on your Specialist
surgeon, but most of all I believe the outcome depends on you!
A Positive attitude, although
sometimes through your journey, may be difficult to maintain, is the first
criteria in wellness. I believe this with all my heart and have read, heard
stories and learned enough to know this is the very first rule STAY POSITIVE!
KNOW THAT YOU WILL SURVIVE!!
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Now
Read on.....
I already know you must be a woman
who likes to have more control of herself. You are not a woman who hands her
life over to a doctor, a surgeon, or an oncologist and says, “Here, my life
is in your hands. Make me better. I too am one of those women who want to
be more in control of herself and during my treatment I felt I was losing that
control. I felt I was becoming part of a thing on a conveyor belt. Going through
the mainstream of medical treatments. I did feel they were doing
everything they could for me and no expense was spared. But I also knew
they were not treating me but the disease with all they knew how. I
still felt I was to become a statistic. The medical profession just do not get
up close and personal, they can’t afford to. We don’t even expect them to. You have possibly already discovered
that the closest anybody can get to you is you.
I researched and read several
books on many subjects dealing with the issue of breast cancer in general. I
also used the Internet for information, statistics, scientific evidence, facts
& fallacies and guidelines. I spent 5 months researching and that is ongoing
as I write, so this story is the result of that research and my personal
experience. This story may give you those extra 5 months I’ve already spent
before you discover your lump and hopefully more insight into this prevalent
disease. Maybe this story will help you make different choices and seek further
information or corroborate what I say here. After all this is your life
we are talking about here! You may feel compelled to save that precious life. It’s
the only life you are going to have in this body and you have so many things yet
to do. Right?
If it was today that I found my
initial lump in my breast, and I know what I know now, I would have done some
things differently and made some different choices. It wasn’t found today, but
in 2003 so I went with what I learned from my experiences and my treatments to
date. I am out to prolong my life. And assuming you are reading this because you
too have a lump or have been diagnosed. So are you! All of our journeys
through this will be unique. Our decisions and outcomes will vary those
journeys. It' is, in short ,a personal experience for each one of us and
each one of us should try to take our responsibilities to ourselves very
seriously. These writings therefore are not to be taken and relied upon, you
should seek expert help at all times.
All
the very best on your journey through breast cancer. Here is mine.......
MY
History
CHAPTER 1
Finding the lump
I have small breasts really and so
finding such a little lump whilst I was showering wasn’t like I poked and
probed around for ages. In fact I am a little slack in that area and usually
leave it up to my doctor when I go in for my two yearly checkups. But I am slack
there too and was already overdue a visit by about a year. I am 50 years old now
and should know better, but I just hate those PAP smears with a vengeance and
keep putting them off.
I decided to go in after finding this
small lump; I was way overdue for my PAP smear anyway, so I may as well go and
face it.
The Doctor’s visit.
My good Doctor of 20 odd years, checked
me over and after I told him where the lump was he felt it too and decided
that I may as well have a chest X-Ray as well as a mammogram and get it
over with at the same time. He wrote me out a referral for the Specialist.
Hah, I got away with the pap smear. (We both forgot) I didn't go
back to remind him either.
My Mammogram.
I took myself off to the Hospital X-Ray
clinic and followed orders closely as I had never in all my years had an X-ray
nor had I ever had a Mammogram. I don’t like the idea of them at all and had
read about the detrimental effects that they could have on a person. I felt a bit awkward and apprehensive of
the whole procedure. An X-ray for my chest was taken first after which I was
ushered into another little room for my Mammogram. By jingo the attendant nurse
squeezed my little breasts so hard in between those plates that I hoped she
wouldn’t bust that little lump and scatter those potential cancer cells all
over my body.
I was glad when she was done; my
breasts were tender this day as it was. I usually get quite sore breasts during
my monthly cycle. I had only to wait a short while whilst the results came
through. She commented after looking at them briefly and said that my breasts
looked perfectly normal on them. I said that there is a definite lump though and
although only about the size of a pea (squashed now!), it was easily enough felt
by my palpitation and that of the doctors. “Mmm well we might see better with
an ultrasound then.” Well,” I thought, “Why didn’t you just do that in
the first place and spare me that misery I just underwent?”
Please read my free report on mammograms here now.
Ultrasound scan
I was ushered yet again into another
tiny room and told to lay on this high bed and that the specialist in this field
would be in soon. That I was “lucky” because the usual person was away on
holiday and they had brought in a man from Adelaide who was actually more
qualified and was able to procure his own results saving several days as the
usual procedure necessitated that the scan be sent to Perth some 400 kls away.
This bloke did several fine needle aspirations under ultra sound and suggested
all appeared to be okay, except maybe the lump I had found. He seemed unsure of
that but reasonably confident it was okay.
The Specialist visits.
From this point I am relying on memory.
It is now 2005 and a lot has been forgotten.
I visited my Specialist, My daughter,
aged 35 with four children of her own, came with me for support and make sure I
hear everything okay. The specialist said although the tests came back negative
he still felt some concern for the lump and said he would perform a Lumpectomy.
I agreed. Better safe than sorry huh?
I visited with a Cancer Nurse. She was
supportive and informative.
My surgery
I can’t remember the date or anything,
but basically I went under then woke up with a few staples and a little bit less
left boob. It was only day surgery.
My daughter was there for me and brought
me home. My youngest son aged 15, my ex-husband and my daughter and I played a
game of Scrabble that afternoon. I felt fine and not in any pain. I won the
scrabble!
The staples came out some days later and
another visit to the specialist . He confirmed that it was a cancer and
apparently an aggressive type, but the good news was that the margins were
clear. this meant radiotherapy treatment was the next step.
My decision. Radiology V’s Natural
I decided to not have radiology, as the
result was, according to the specialist, that the margins of the excision were
clear. This meant he had got it all. Didn’t it? Radiology meant a six-week
stay in Perth with daily appointments of about ½ hour each for starters. This
was not only inconvenient , expensive to me, it was also unnecessary in my view.
If he got it all, why risk radiotherapy burns and further cancer causing
inflictions on myself?
My specialist insisted on the
radiotherapy and insistently referred me to another surgeon for a second
opinion. He even made the appointment for me then and there. My best girlfriend
Ann came with me, but my mind was made up. I could do this myself! Besides
this other specialist would only say what the first one did because they are in
the same business. It was now November 2003
Somebody told me about Latreal. I did
some research on the Internet and decided to give it a go. My friend gave me
heaps of Latreal and I began ingesting just a small amount. (too small?) I also
bought a water filter and a juicer to improve my dietary intake of nutrients.
Vitamin c went onto my list of stuff to take as well as two visits to a Rieki
Master .
The Rieki Master told me she too had
breast cancer and she also went for the adjunctive therapies. This sorta broke
some of my trust in Reiki, after all if it was all she claimed how come she did
all that stuff. No faith ? Not even in your self? I also visited an Iridologist
who gave some helpful advice and a few more pills like a multivitamin and some
Kelp. I must admit I didn’t always keep to a stiff regime with all this and
slacked off, as is my nature when I felt so good. I didn’t even go to my third
Rieki appointment.
Follow up scan in February 2004
I had this scan (Ultra sound) and all
appeared just fine according to the results. I breathed a sigh of relief. It is
all clear and I can move on with my life again.
I felt like I had it all under control
and in my mind the specialist had cut it all out and had thrown it away. I
was recovered! Life is great. Now just leave me alone to get on with it please.
Thank you!
Progress
In October 2004 after completing a
course in Property Management, I
landed a job with a local real estate Agent and life could not be better! I had
a great full-time job, taking good care of my 15 year old son. . Looking after
the squash courts and a couple of private houses for friends who had them rented
out. I was busy, but happy.
Bomb Shells!!
Its early 2005 and I found another lump! Just near the one
they took out.! I knew I shouldn't have had that mammogram and all those
needle biopsies.! What good did they do me? Hang on... is that another
lump in my right breast? Yes it is, but its tiny and feels very different to
this new one. This tiny one feels like it's a bit tubular and smooth yet the one
in my left breast feels all lumpy and ugly. Like it's got tentacles! My gawd!
has it come back? I hope not!
I left it awhile and realised soon after that it wasn't
going to diminish and just go away, but I was dreading another visit to the
bloody specialist! He was just going to say "See, I told you so"
Dread it or not I took myself off to see him. After all if I now do have a
cancer in both breasts than the radiology wasn't even going to be a healing
factor as they would have only done the spot where my initial cancer was and now
I had lumps in both breasts.
To be continued........................
And Stay tuned for these additions
CONTENTS
- My history:
- The History of cancer: Statistics, risks, causes
and how it develops
- My
Political Breasts
- The nature of breast cancer
-
Different types of breast cancer explained
- On Hormones: Hormone balancing, HRT
- On Mammograms:
- On Chemotherapy:
- On Surgery and reconstruction:
- On: Recovery:
- On Support: Family, friends and the Cancer
Council
ON PREVENTATIVES, ALTERNATIVES AND COMPLEMENTARY:
- On Vitamins and Minerals
- On Vitamin D:
(This is now available in e-book form. Get it now!)
- On Good food: juicing, vitamins and
minerals, Linseed oil, Soy
- On Water:
- On Latreal:
- On Colloidal Silver
- On Exercise:
- Think Positive
Get Well:
(This is now available in e-book form. Get it now!)
- On Iridology:
- On Naturopathy:
- On the Phyto Factor:
ON
CHEMICALS AND YOUR ENVIRONMENT:,
23.
Carcinogens
24.
Beauty products
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