The lovely little Pink ribbon!!

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The lovely little Pink ribbon!!

On this breast cancer awareness month, I would like to share you my story about how our family walked along our mom’s side during her treatments. First of all, I would like to thank Indusladies Team for the BBBC campaign to bring awareness. Hope it will reach every woman to spread the word!

My mom knows how to self examine, and found the painless, lump in its earlier stage. But unfortunately our gynaecologist couldn’t make out it in its initial stage for which she asked my mom to follow treatment for fibroid. May be we didn’t want to hear the other side, we didn’t question her more.

Later again we noticed the increase in size and went to her again. She advised for FNA. We saw a pathologist, who performed a FNA (Fine needle aspirate), on the small lump. Unlucky we all, the result showed a false negative result. And we were happy to continue with the treatment. As the days passed, we got more and more suspicious; we thought to leave this gynaecologist, but to see a family friend, who was a surgeon. By that time, it has developed to a bigger lump of about 4cm.

The lump removed was examined and this subsequently showed that it was malignant. Next was to have breast muscles and lymph glands removal to see which stage it was on its malignancy. Unfortunate, it has spread to lymph also and had entered into second stage of breast carcinoma.

Our next decision was to decide where to be treated. My father was heart-broken and was unable to take any decisions. Being the eldest daughter, I had to decide. During my search, I had met some worst greedy doctors talking business to me. I was gathering all my strength when they were talking about the worse conditions of disease straight my face.

She had to start with ‘chemotherapy’ treatment after three months wait (surgery wound healing time). I had decided on a hospital near to our home, where a senior Oncologist, retired from the Govt. Medical College, who visited once in a week. If I had seen a God alive, it will be he!

The most difficult part of the Chemotherapy was hair fall problem. She lost all her hair within the first months of her treatment. The effect of it on the rest of the family was one of the most difficult parts of all of this. We all were devastated first.

One of the important factors of going through treatment is to carryon life, as a normal one! So we made her believe, she was not diagnosed breast cancer, but her medical results were confusive, so she has to undergo all the treatments to be on a safe side. But now she knows she HAD cancer.

Facing this phase of our life, made us grow closer to each other, with a new understanding of how lucky we all were, to meet all the challenges we faced with our love and support for each other. And now she is a survivor, who had learned to accept she HAD cancer. This lovely little pink ribbon is to bring awareness about breast cancer. It is in my mother’s honour.

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Thank you Lalitha and Meera for your comments and Wishes!!

 

Hugs ille!!

Dear Ramyaraja, Thank you for your comment. Hope your mother is doing good now. Your Mother will be in our prayers. Thank you again.

Dear Maalti, Thank you for your prayers and comment.