It all started with seeing the mobile mammogram bus sitting outside the medical centre. Thought to myself “ why haven’t I had a letter ? Called into the bus and asked only to be told that as I’m over 70yrs I’m 71 it was up to me to make an appointment. I wasn’t aware I had to so immediately rang got an appointment and happily went along for my mammogram. Fast forward a week or so, got a letter saying my breast x-rays were unclear and gave me an appointment at a breast clinic. The day arrived and there were my breast x- rays on the Doctors computer. Wasn’t prepared for what happened that day, more mammograms and ultrasound scan, titanium marker inserted, biopsy taken. “ you will get an appointment to discuss the biopsy results” going home with the “ marker” kind of gave the game away, the C word wasn’t mentioned  but now very worried about everything !!

Got my results last Monday, I have breast cancer, ( early one) Still trying to process everything and reading everything I can which is probably not the right thing to do. I have a pre op  assessment on Friday and a provisional time frame for surgery, possibility of  radiotherapy and definitely hormone therapy are also on the cards, worried about all of it but Thank God I saw the “ bus”.