'Cancer has so many faces, but at 29, I never thought it would look like mine'. ✍️ Georgie May
It hit me like a ton of bricks because I didn’t think women my age could get. In the breast clinic, no one in the posters on the walls looked like me; and no one in the ward or waiting room was ever my age.
I had a cold cap, which helped me to keep about 60% of my long, thick, dark hair – but not without pain!A month later, I had a lumpectomy and a lymph node biopsy – I was also offered IVF, and managed to have some eggs frozen before an intense course ofEvery week, I had an array of injections and infusions that put me in medical menopause, in attempts to protect my ovaries from being ravaged by chemo.
I thought I’d have a huge knees-up for my 30th – and certainly not be sitting on a bathroom floor, crying. Sober I filmed my ordeal with the cold cap, my hair loss, my injections, IVF, and time on the chemotherapy ward. I cried on camera, opening up about how I was feeling about my life, my future. It was my therapy.
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