Like so many of us, Michelle never imagined she’d become a cancer statistic. She’d had her challenges. Her son George, 27, was born with a heart defect and she lost her father after his 11-year battle with Alzheimer’s.
But Michelle had a loving husband, a stable job and a rock-solid support system of family and friends. She was doing alright.
When the letter came through for her routine breast cancer screening, Michelle wasn’t worried. With no symptoms and nothing to ring any alarm bells, she felt at ease when she attended her appointment in January this year.
So, when her doctor said they’d found a tumour, Michelle was shocked. ‘You get a gut feeling when you’re taken into a room, don’t you?’ she recalls. ‘I think I knew deep down it