Michelle's Story

In December I found a lump so I went to the docs to be told it wasn’t cancer, the believed the lump just felt like hormonal so I got put on some antibiotics just in case it was an infected boil.

I took the tablets and went back 2 weeks later where the lump had doubled in size from a 5p coin to a 10p.

The doctor then referred me for an ultra sound scan. I went for this scan in January, at that appointment they found a lot of white patches and calcification so wanted to do a biopsy and a mammogram.

They then sent the biopsy away for testing and got me back in February to tell me I had stage 3 cancer. The next day I went to have an mri scan to see what we were dealing with.

The scans come back with it being 37mm in one side and the other side they had found another lump at 14mm. They wanted to leave the little lump for another 6-12 months but I fought and fought to have this lump taken out too. Two days before my operation was going ahead they agreed to do the both sides after I written an email in to the people who was making a decision on my body.

The op was done and it turned out the 37mm side was 71 mm and the 14mm side was 17mm and it was cancer. With having the op we wasn’t sure what was going to happen but after getting the results back from California I was told I’d need both chemotherapy and radiotherapy as the cancer was too large and there’s a big risk that cancerous cells could have gone somewhere else in my body.

I also will need tablets for 7 years.

I’m now just waiting for an appointment to see when all this treatments starts.

I would like to say Thankyou to the Ben Saunders foundation for giving me this opportunity to get away for a break before all my treatment starts.

You really are amazing. ⚽️