Scars of Strength
As I stand in front of my husband taking this photo, I am both empowered and terrified but I am laid bare for a cause. There are so many emotions, memories and impacts racing through my heart & mind that started with my IBC diagnosis in September 2017 that will be...
Scars of Strength
So, here I am, 5 years post-Inflammatory-Breast-Cancer diagnosis and living with the aftermath of treatment. While I’m very happy that I’m in a state known as NED (No Evidence of Disease), the cost of the rigorous treatment needed to survive IBC has left me with...
Scars of Strength
I was diagnosed at age 29 in 2015, just one month after being proposed to. I had no time to preserve fertility. I went immediately into treatments. I went through 16 rounds of chemo, 44 rounds of radiation and a mastectomy. I had a single mastectomy and hoped to one...
Scars of Strength
My story started with a lump in my armpit that was painful in October 2019. I just assumed it was bacteria from shaving my armpits or something along those lines and ignored it moving on with life. Fast forward to December of 2019, I still have the lump in my armpit...
Scars of Strength
In March of 2019, I had recently weaned my daughter and it felt like my milk had come in again. I wasted time expressing milk and trying to massage out the “blocked duct”. In May, I went to the doctor because it wasn’t getting better. Within 3 days of going to the...
Scars of Strength
Diagnosed just before my 51st birthday, February 2015. ER/PR- HER2+ IBC FECT, radical MX and ANC, radiotherapy and cured! Huge thanks to the researchers and scientists behind my treatment. Thankfully, my consultant was on the ball, but IBC support, particularly...
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