You can beat this too

[Southview]

Just wanted to give you ladies some inspiration .. I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, aged 39.

I had surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and a year on intravenous Herceptin.

I will be 55 next month … I initially had regular monitoring for about a year after ending treatment and an annual mammogram until I was 50 and now they’re every 3 years.

I’ve had no recurrence and I look back on that period of my life as if it happened to somebody else, it’s all just a vague memory now.

The key is to have the mindset of a survivor not a victim.

Good luck to all of you x

[Happyrosie]

southview, thank you.

Your history is similar to mine, though mine was ten years ago and I’m reminded of it daily when I put my bra on - with its prosthesis!

But so what, I’m a balanced lady!