CHECK YOUR BREASTS!!!

[FiveSoloRings]

I got news this morning that one of my friends died yesterday. She was in her very early 30's, two young children and everything to live for. Despite a mastectomy a couple of years ago, the cancer spread and she is gone. I can't tell you how dreadful I feel.

It is so important that we check our breasts regularly. It takes a few minutes and could save your life.
One of my best friends had a message just like this one, but it was face to face and by her boyfriends exgf who also had just had a mastectomy because of breast cancer. This message from such an unlikely messenger almost certainly saved my best friends life.

Pass the message on please ladies. Make sure your friends and family are nudged into remembering to check.

Blimey it's quiet in here!

Doubly proud of the fact that yesterday i went swimming AGAIN (polishes nails and glows with pride). AND I went down the really scary flume thing - twice! (Trying to persuade dd it is fun (it is NOT)

heeellllooooooooooo!

Well done on the swimming Cakes, I once went down one of those flume things and there was a power cut. Total darkness - scared the shit out of me.

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no exercise tales or swimming stories to report,though I have walked briskly into town and back, does that count ?

Yes it counts very well MAS

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I really hope your Mum see's sense Cantuccini. I remember when I was in my 20's, no children and only a bullying and abusive husband, I thought that if I ever got bc, I'd rather die than lose my breasts...age, maturity and the addition of two wonderful Dc's makes me think differently now thank the Lord. Your Mum needs to not only consider her own health in this, but you and her entire family that love her. Doesn't she want to see her Gchildren grow up, get married etc?

Yes, show her this thread and tell her that Solo say's 'get your arse(boobs)to the breast screening appointment and stop being so silly'.
You know what I mean!

please show your mum this thread cantuccini - my bc was found on a mammo - for older women (no disrespect to cantuccini's mum) it is very good for picking up the minutest indication of anything untoward as breast tissue becomes denser as we age. It's scary to go -I was very nervous but is over very quickly and the majority of women get a clean bill of health - please tell her to be brave and go,she won't regret it.

Cantuccini, I'm sorry for your situation, it must be a worry for you.

I imagine a lot of your mum's reluctance stems from fear, especially after her experience with her own mum.

However treatment for breast cancer has moved on and is advancing so quickly, so much can be done to help people. I do hope you manage to persuade her to get her check up, it is so important. Best wishes.

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Ooh dear, get her down there pronto, fear or no fear. Like MAS my bc was found on a routine mammogram, they are brilliant things and it is lunacy not to go - no disrespect to Cantuccini's Mum, but you know what I mean. There will be so much more, ongoing fear for her if she does not go.

Good luck!

MAS - yes, the walking def counts as exercise- - it all does, even housework according to Purple Peony's research stats. I now have an exercise diary (KK's idea) and I am going to try to keep it up. I'll have another go at yoga tomorrow (cancelled last week due to snow).

As regards the flume - after i went down a few times, I got DH to take over. He got stuck halfway down.

He is not fat, honest - but he was wearing baggy cotton type shorts, and they just sort of stuck there. All I could see was his head going back and forth urgently as he tried to release the friction. (Arf, Arf)It's a good job I don't have pelvic floor weakness, that's all I can say.

oh good about walking Cakes !!
v funny about dh in the flume ! they scare me a bit,I always think I'd get my arm caught or hair stuck plus it'd be a bit claustrophobic.

Yeah, they are not for me, but I am trying to teach dd to be less of a stress head. I also worry about getting my hair stuck (not just now, but when it is longer than half an inch all over)and also about plopping in at the end. I love swimming but I am one of those who gets a crick in their neck from keeping their ears out of the water.

But ALL exercise counts towards your four hours a week total. Yippee! Even doing funny dancing around the living room to CDs (which I do a lot of [blush)

Bumping.

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I can only back up the OP. I was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 37. I wasn't overweight, but a size 8, no family history, I have been vegetarian for about 30 years so no meat-induced excess oestrogen, I was in none of the risk categories. Had you asked the month before I found my lump I'd have said it won't happen to me.

I found my lump through chance, in the bath - I never checked my breasts. Thankfully it was small, I had a lumpectomy, radiotherapy, my ovaries removed to prevent recurrance and 3+ years of Tamoxifen - and I'm still here to tell the tale, with nothing but clear screens ever since, thank god.

My saving grace was that I went to the GP the morning I found the lump although I was desperate to hide my head in the sand, see if it went away, ignore it.

FFS, please, do this for this stranger... if you value your life, if you want to see your children grow up, check your breasts, take no chances.

Well said Vallhala, glad to see you with us
Cantuccini, I think the plan with 'your' appointment sounds like a good one. Just make sure Mum has a good bra on that day...save any embarrassing greys! Good luck!

yes,well saild valhalla

uh,spellings -said and Vallhala

bump!

thanks for this

I am considering going to the doc as after 8 years of almost continuous breast feeding and pregnancy, I no longer remember what is 'normal'