We are survivors not victims remember that!

jmunding

I have been battling this disease on and off since i was 19 yrs old and i am now 45. It has been hard, its been rough and not easy lets face it. I was diagnosed with uterine cancer as well when i was pregnant with my second child but fought the doctors and had the baby against all odds. I ended up having to have a hysterectomy but it was worth it. I have had breast cancer more times than i care to count and one thing remains the same. I hate and despise the word VICTIM, we are not victims, we are SURVIVORS! This disease can and will be stomped out. I can sit here and say that it tears me apart when i am again diagnosed (despite a mastectomy 2 1/2 yrs ago) but there is a reason that i must continue to battle this demon, Only our heavens know the truth to that answer. I do not feel like a victim because i feel that i have learned so much about myself through the experience. I have grown as a result and become a tougher person as a result. The tough outer skin that i have developed has been a result of this experience and it has helped me to also battle to rehabilitate after being a pedestrian in a hit and run accident. I dont think i would have been able to come back the way i did afterwards if it were not for my family, and the strength that i gained during my battles. My battles are not over yet and i have been battling with lymph gland cancers under my arms as well because my surgeoun did not get all the glands. Am i angry, you bet i am but not at the doctors and not at the fact i have endured multiple surgeries under the hands of a idiot who calls himself a plastic surgeon who messed up my reconstrction not once but twice and then wehn he messed it up again, Told me to 'suck it up that it did not matter because i dont have real breasts anyway!

I am mad at the demon that hides itself within a pink ribbon and gives itself a name 'breast cancer'. i am mad that so many women before me have had to fight, are fighting now and will fight in the future. I for one am not allowing it too win, i will battle and i wll see to it that through find raising, a cure is found. I am taking part in the walk for the cure for princess margaret and named our team 'Universal survivors not victims." I will kick the disease in the teeth and i will walk along side all of my sisters who will also walking. I may be ill right now but i will be there to cheer everyone on and to walk with you all in my heart and in my mind.

We need to remember though, please!
we are not victims girls we are survivors!

Primel

Thank you for your message: women like you make all the difference... you are our inspiration to keep a good attitude and fight the battle(s)...
My very best to you,
CatherineH