Breast Cancer? Bring It On!

One woman's fight

against breast cancer

My sister, Angela was given a present for her 39^th birthday,

the like of which her family could never have matched.

It was a modified radical mastectomy and an axilliary lymph node

dissection which involved the removal of 17 lymph nodes.

Three months previously she had found a lump in her left breast.

Twenty four hours before that she and her daughter,

Maisie, had been living a normal life.

It’s amazing what difference a day or a month or a year makes.

She became a statistic.

One of every nine women in our society today,

have or will have in the future, breast cancer.

Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer

in women under 35 and by age 35-39 over 1,400 women

are diagnosed each year. By those very figures, hers is not

an extraordinary story - but it is a positive one.

It is uplifting, thought provoking, very humorous and humbling

to those of us who are lucky enough NOT to be a statistic – YET.

By H.L.Tooley with extracts taken from Angela Tooley's diary