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The devastation looking back through the hour glass!

A survivor means many things! But above all it means you have survived something that could have killed you.
Sharing information is great because it helps others and I needed a lot of help to make decisions that I knew nothing about. I was very lucky that cancer council and some ladies that had been through the same things shared their story. It’s great to listen to others, but also to take what you need from this.
Not all Information that is shared is good.
Looking glass looking back!
This year marks the 11 th anniversary of my second cancer! Sounds weird I would rather celebrate with something good. But guess what I am here that’s amazing!
Would I make the same choices! Not sure! Would I do the same things not sure!
Coming this far!
Fear no longer consumes my mind! Oh that’s ok pretty sure only a couple of years ago I panicked over everything and started imagining things that weren’t even there.
After the mastectomy I couldn’t feel my chest! This far in I still can’t. The skin has feeling but I have no feeling still. It’s a weird thing not to be able to still feel nothing. I can’t get used to this even now.
I thought in time it wouldn’t matter. But it does! No one gets this but you survivors know what I mean!
Dead chest hard to describe, nothing there if I bang into something it doesn’t hurt! That’s the weird thing my chest is dead.
#mastectomy #loss #survivor #iamstillawoman #lookingglass #fear

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  1. Anonymous7 November 2024 at 06:45

    Hi Nina I read your book 📕 and delighted for you, but I remember being at your fundraising event organised by the lovely Robert the Irish hairdresser,I was surprised to see the mistype in the book 📖. Keep going your a inspiration to all women

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