I am still a woman - Confessions of a twice cancer survivor - my journey by Nina Ann McCurley

Well Australia has been in the news for all the wrong things this week. Sadly media and supporters are playing out this causality. It's sad 😭 should never have happened. But it did happen. The punishment has been dished out. Like it or hate it we have to let this go. The families of these boys are coping alot of negative attention. Sadly this can't be changed. The punishment is set now we need to leave it alone. The mental health is very important now. As a police contractor I see every day what happens to the mind when it's compromised. Live and let go. Don't let the innocent players be dragged into this. We are Australian we always pull together in tough times. Why aren't we doing it now? Feeling for all the innocent in this battle, if you have missed it here is the scoop.  https://www.google.com.au/amp/s/amp.smh.com.au/sport/cricket/underbelly-australian-grade-cricket-warner-tampering-20180331-p4z77m.html #candicewarner #sydneymorningherald #cricket #aust...

So what believe means to me. On a girls night the girls asked me why did I get a tattoo on my neck that says believe. It's got a a pink ribbon in the middle of course it's the breast cancer ribbon. They loved it so much. You know I promised myself if I survived I would get this tattoo. Beautiful - this life Enjoy - this life Love ❤️ - this life Iconic - this life Everything - this life Value - this life Exactly - my journey #believe #symbollic #survivor #iamstillawoman

In a cancer battle ! A stem cell transplant is a treatment for some types of cancer. For example, you might have one if you have leukemia, multiple myeloma, or some types of lymphoma. Doctors also treat some blood diseases with stem cell transplants. In the past, patients who needed a stem cell transplant received a “bone marrow transplant” because the stem cells were collected from the bone marrow. Today, stem cells are usually collected from the blood, instead of the bone marrow. For this reason, they are now more commonly called stem cell transplants. Why is it important ?  A part of your bones called “bone marrow” makes blood cells. Marrow is the soft, spongy tissue inside bones. It contains cells called “hematopoietic” stem cells (pronounced he-mah-tuh-poy-ET-ick). These cells can turn into several other types of cells. They can turn into more bone marrow cells. Or they can turn into any type of blood cell. Certain cancers and other diseases keep hematopoietic stem...

“ Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you are not having to fight.  Traci Lea Larussa #quoteoftheday #iamstillawoman #survivor #tracilealarussa

At a party one night in all the cheers and all the happiness of being together, I see a vulnerable husband. My friends husbands are great and I life seeing my friends happy, what I also love is that men get as scared about cancer as us ladies do,  I may be wrong but maybe they don't have the same resources we do,  the coffees the sharing Journies etc. so my friends husband tells me he has only one testicle. He talks about a scarey voyage as we share voyages, also just to put something amazing on this they are both happy on there second marriages. Also they have had a child. So that's fantastic news that you can come through a scarey battle, still produce. So look here is what we spoke of: What are the symptoms of testicular cancer? A hard lump in either testis is the usual symptom of testicular cancer. The lump is usually painless but in about one in 10 men it is painful or tender. In a few men, constant backache, coughing or breathlessness, and enlarged or tende...

Basically I heard so many words I didn't understand. What do they mean? So many choices, ouch which one shall I use. They all seem ok but they all have ups and downs, my mind is whirling, what to do and what not to do.  You will make the right choice. But for me this was it.  #sharing #awareness #iamstillawoman #myjourney #survivor  During implant reconstruction, if you're having the implant inserted at the same time as mastectomy (immediate reconstruction) and enough tissue is available to cover the implant, your plastic surgeon will place the breast implant under your chest muscle after your breast surgeon has removed the breast tissue. If a large amount of skin is removed during mastectomy or you're having the staged approach to implant reconstruction (delayed-immediate reconstruction), your plastic surgeon places a tissue expander between the skin and chest muscle after your breast surgeon has removed the breast tissue. A tissue expander is an implant that’s...

I am still a woman - Well everything that makes you a woman is still here. Missing lots of body parts to a war that I won is scarey but ok now. In the beginning of this second journey, loosing body parts was pretty scarey. Gee not only that but I may loose my life. Well that's really scarey. I said to my great friend Zu, I bet my boobs come back before my hair... yep that's the thing. Loosing hair for a woman is really scarey. Men look unreal with bald heads, don't get me wrong woman look amazing too but I just wasn't comforted by the thought of having no hair. Wigs I had 3 wore them out all the time. Bandanas are cool so they were great for home, at night when you don't realise that hair keeps your head warm. Those Indian type hats were great 👍 I had a red one for night. It had a little white apple on it. Hence to say my kids christened me apple iPod. The boobs happened in stages actually I am about to share in my next blog. The voyage and stages of that Turn...