Pick Me Up!

Mummy’s hope

Sitting in the living room, I feel a wave of panic and fear hit me.

Post-traumatic stress is very common,’ doctors had told me.

Sometimes, I can go from being happy and peaceful to worried and sad in seconds.

But every time I feel that way, I just look at my little boy.

And instantly, the anxiety washes away.

Sina, two, is my baby of hope.

He distracts me from my life-changing diagnosis…

In September 2018, I was having a shower when I noticed a lump on my breast.

‘You should go to the GP,’ my husband Ibrahim, 46, said.

I booked an appointment straight away, and saw my GP two days later.

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