Three Irish women share their experience of having breast cancer, and what helped them during the difficult time.
Three Irish women share their experience of having breast cancer, and what helped them during the difficult timeIt’s been just over two years since Rachel McKenna, 41, first found out about her cancer diagnosis. Shortly after giving birth to her son Elijah, Rachel noticed that something was off. But through raising awareness and supporting greater research, Rachel hopes that metastatic cancer can move away from being a terminal illness, to a long-term illness that is lived with.
“Soon after I got fifteen rounds of radiotherapy on my cervical thoracic and lumbar spine and did some biopsies. It was then I was told I had stage four metastatic breast cancer and that it had travelled to my bones. This first admission saw me staying in hospital for a month. However, after being released for just three days I was readmitted due to an infection.
Then, in July of this year, I was told the cancer had spread to the skull. So I’m on a new cancer treatment where I get a hormone injection every three months and another injection every month as well as a chemo tablet. Thankfully, it hasn’t spread to the brain and we did radiotherapy and I’m feeling much better now.
“Two weeks later, I received my results which confirmed that it was cancer. They told me they were going to organise a lumpectomy, and the date that they had scheduled was the day my little boy was due to start school. So I started to cry. I don’t know whether it was because of the cancer or the fact that I was going to be missing his first day of school.
“Their support is just exceptional. Since my diagnosis, my sister was also diagnosed with breast cancer. She’s finished her treatment and is back to work now, but it just kind of shows the statistics because there’s no previous history in our family. I think the most important thing you can do if you know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer is to just be there for them, without smothering them.
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