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One day I developed a lump in my armpit, and I joked about it in front of the girls at the office that day. And one of them caught me on the way out and kicked me into mammology. About a week later, Dr. Happy called me to see if I could come in right away. I got on my bike and rode from work to his office. From that point on, I never went back to my old job...
Hello, you are seriously ill
Breast cancer... I was 28. And he basically started explaining to me right away what was going to happen, from the surgery through all kinds of check-ups and subsequent chemotherapy treatments and radiation. Honestly, as soon as he told me the diagnosis, I just sat there and cried, not believing it was happening...
Endless treatment
I had the tumor and the nodule removed. It was in my armpit that the incipient metastases were found. Shortly afterwards I started chemotherapy. I was set for eight doses followed by radiation. After this treatment I attended every four weeks for five years for injections, which I still take today. I was kept in what is called an artificial transition for the entire five years. A few months after the treatment ended, I had a mastectomy, where the actual breast gland is removed, but the skin of my breast, including the areola and nipple, remains. The volume was replaced with a silicone implant.
I didn't give up
I took medication to make it more bearable, and yes, it's true that I didn't throw up even once. But for at least the first three days after chemo, I didn't get out of bed, and when I went to the bathroom I passed out a lot, I was so sick. Every time I told myself I couldn't handle another chemo. I pushed the worst moments away... I always started to feel better towards the end of the week, and as I was having chemotherapy every three weeks, I could get my strength back. As a girl, the only thing that scared me besides dying was losing my hair, eyelashes and pubic hair.
What helped me
The absolutely incredible support of my family, my then boyfriend, friends and acquaintances and the doctors at the oncology in Pardubice. I couldn't imagine not seeing my most beloved niece Nikolka grow up. She was the one who held me during the long treatment and paradoxically I enjoyed this "happiness in adversity". It's funny, of course, that such a little creature doesn't realize what a capacity she had and still has. Anyway, children are a great cure for all sorrow.
I hope I won.
I know now that if it's not about life, it's not about anything! Everything is connected to that.
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