44 February 2022 The Birthday Journal need to be tackled by prayer. Also, I was fortunate in a way, as my attending doctor had recently lost his wife to cancer, leaving behind young children. He chose an aggressive form of chemotherapy and was determined to support me with the lessons learnt from his late wife’s experience. Prior to my surgery, he briefed and prepared me about the implications so that I could understand what would be in my best interest. In cases where breast cancer patients opted to leave some of the breast tissue for cosmetic purposes instead of removing everything, the cancer re-appeared elsewhere in the body and created complications. Currently, medical technology is so advanced that whilst you are in the theatre, the malignant tissue can be removed and precise surgery or treatment can be carried out, but that was not the case inmy day. The word “cancer” itself was so frightening at the time I was diagnosed. These days, there are so many survivors, and the diagnosis is not as frightening depending on the type
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