Christmas eve 2009 my friends life changed forever... not long after so did mine.
I remember before the diagnosis speaking with her and talking about the lump.. her youngest child was soon to turn 2 so blocked milk ducts seemed the likely diagnosis.. she is only 37 it couldnt be any thing else....
The results came back and as we had all thought it was just a cyst.. but to err on the safe side she would go for a mamogram, better to be safe than sorry.
Thats when it all went wrong. The lump was a cyst but they had discovered extensive cancer in the milk ducts... 37yr... How...
I had a text message from my sister saying that BF was trying to contact me as i was away with my family for the christmas holidays.. i felt a flash of panic and tried to phone but her phone was engaged so i jumped on to face book and there it was my BF had changed her sta ...