19/06/2025
When my Mum got breast cancer at the age of 47 I thought that was young.... how wrong was I. When my daughter got breast cancer at the age of 29, that was shocking... whatever your age, please heed her advice and check yourself.
"Over a year since my DCIS diagnosis and 10 months since finding out about my BRCA2 mutation calls for an update on my grid, so here's a rough post-op photo from yesterday following my prophylactic mastectomy and submuscular tissue expander placement on my 'unaffected' breast.
I can not lie and say this has been an easy 14 months since I first found that lump, and I certainly never thought it would lead to years of appointments with multiple interventions.
Quite honestly these surgeries are the most difficult things I've been through both physicallyand mentally, so I thought I'd brave posting a picture I'd never usually take to show the reality, but for each procedure I am massively reducing my risk of further cancers and (hopefully🤞) giving myself years more with my loved ones which makes it all worth the struggles 💫
So a further reminder (from someone currently feeling pretty horrific - although grateful for the NHS - in a hospital bed): Please keep checking ✔️ yourselves regularly; please get any unusual lumps, bumps, skin lesions or symptoms checked straight away, as whilst it could be nothing it could also mean you catch something early"