When one battle ended ANOTHER BEGAN
Nov 16, 2021
4 minutes
WORDS: DONNA SMILEY
As a chronic worrier, I’d always assumed if something terrible happened in my life, I’d be the one crying in the corner, unable to cope with it all. But when my doctor uttered the words ‘breast cancer’, my initial reaction was, ‘Screw it, you’re not having me!’
As a mum to two young children, who were everything to me and my husband Matt, I was determined not to leave them without a mother.
I was 40 when I found a lump on the underside of my right breast while doing my regular breast checks in February 2015. My GP thought that as I had no family history of breast cancer and at my young age, it was
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