Breast cancer, think positively, cancer treatment,
hope, success cases, survival stories, reborn, mama, cancer,
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This is not a novel, nor a fiction story, it's just part of my life which I considered important to people who have passed through similar situations to mine.
My name is Lecas, I am from Portugal, I was born on April 22nd, 1950 in the beautiful Portuguese city: Lisbon. I am a Breast Cancer Survivor. Sixteen months ago my life changed when I was diagnosized breast cancer. A tumor started to grow extremely fast and while I got more worried and more anxious, the tumor grew faster. It measured 5 cm (yes, 2 inches!!).
I started to think of everything that I thought it was beautiful about life and that if I was going to die, I had to make strong decisions to be happy as long as I lived.
I felt that there were so many beautiful things in the world and people didn’t even stop to observe them, like: the full moon, the sunset, the smile of a baby, the sound of the sea waves and many other things. . I also knew that there were also sad and unpleasant things for which we have to pass, and one of them was death. Many things passed through my mind, everything that I wanted to do and I haven't done. The hardest part was to think that my family still needed me and that time wasn't the right moment for me to die. |
| The most important decision I had to take was to end my marriage of 35 years because I never was completely happy with him. He accepted it and we separated. I stayed with my children, my son-in-law, my brothers, my mother and the rest of my family, which gave me a lot of support during all treatments of chemotherapy and finally my surgery.
Then, like a romantic hollywood movie (yes, it is true), a very old friend of mine appeared again in my life to support me and love me and actually he helped me very much during my treatment. In fact, Doctors were surprised because after the third chemotherapy session the tumor totally dissapeared! All this thanks to the loving support of my friends and familiy. My positive psychological state helped to cure myself faster.
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Now I am a Breast Cancer Survivor. I am quite recovered and trying to live as much as possible, although there are times I feel down because of the time I missed, the moments that I wanted to live and I did not, or maybe not as deeply as I wanted. I think a lot about the years that have passed and I can not return back, then I think of my family and especially my children and I remember how beautiful life is regardless of the hard moments.
I have been very positive since I can remember (i have had my hopeless moments too), and as I said before, that has helped me through the difficult moments of my desease. For many people it is hard to believe in this, but the mind is so powerful, that I have had experiences that have taught me that when we deny or doubt what we want, it is far more difficult to achieve what we want. on the contrary if we think positively, we will accomplish ANYTHING, sometimes not at the moment we want, but it will come. Do not doubt about it.
And last, I would like to say that we have to feel good with ourselves in order to feel good with others. Our love ones expect from us the best, we can't disappoint them. We need to WANT to get better, even in those moments we may feel as if life is finally coming to an end for us. |
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This is me now, 16 months after I first knew I had Breast Cancer. |
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