As you all know by now October is Breast Cancer awareness month. I know that no one on here knows this but breast cancer hit's close to home for Caro and me. Our aunt was diagnosis with Advance Stage 3 breast cancer last year.
No one in my family wanted to tell me that my aunt had breast cancer. I found out by mistake, Nataly let it slip one day, my first reaction was one of shock and then it was to sit on the floor and cry. Actually it was more like a sob but you get what I mean. I am very close to my aunt she is my second mom. She helped raise me. I have always thought of her and my tio (uncle) as my second set of parents and her daughters as my sisters. In fact when I was 5 I use to tell everyone I had 4 older sisters instead of two. I was heartbroken when my mom explain to me that Josie and Gricy where my cousins not my sisters. LOL.
My aunt had surgery to remove the cancerfrom her right breast in March and had chemo right after that. Chemo was really hard for her because not only was she sick and unable to do anything (which she hated) but also she could not travel and that was the hardest part of all since this was all happening at the same time that my grandmother was very ill and my aunt wanted to go to D.R.to be with my abuela. Last Tuesday was her last day of radiation and this week her doctor gave her a clean bill of health and permission to travel. My Tia is so excited about the fact that she can go to D.R. to visit my grandmother and now my grandfather.
I will end this post with a picture of a survivor, mi tia. Te quiero mucho tia.
12 comments:
Great post!!! One of my grand aunts was diagnosed with Cancer about 6mts ago at the age of 83 and she caught it early, YEPPIE!!! She had to have her breast removed and was blessed without the need for chemo/or radiation.
Thanks for posting this message I know its going to help others out there ... early detection is the best prevention!
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Karla,
Your tia is an inspiration for me to keep going in my battle. I don't have breast cancer but doing chemo. I wish you and her all the best!
Excellent post! Continued blessings to your tia.
My mom and grandma are also breast cancer survivors... so, this suject hits close to home for me too.
Thanks for your post.
Take care.
Hi Karla - Cancer's such an ugly poison. I know where you're coming from about familes and cancer - I have a post on my blog about this - "poison and hope." You got the right attitude - spreading that message and influencing others. Yes maam, I wear my little pink ribbon every day.
Aw, Karlita, you made me cry. I'm so sick of cancer right now. it seems like it's everywhere. But the good news is that of all the people I know with cancer or that had cancer, they've all been survivors. Including my first cousin who was diagnosed 5 years ago with breast cancer at 30 years old.
So, I will continue my prayers for all those living with cancer and fighting with it now, but beating it. With God, prayers and lots of love and positive thinking, all things are possible!
thank you for sharing something so personal. it really helps to know that there are others that know how i feel at this moment. in some odd way karla, although i wish you and Caro didn't have to experience this, it brings me solace to know that people do live on. thank you. God bless your tia.
My great-grandma (who is going to be a wonderful 89 a week from today) is a cancer survivor and my mom, aunt and cousin all did Race For The Cure this year. I want to do it next year with my little man (who will be 3 then).
Thank you for this. Really. Thank you for sharing.
Thoughts, prayers, positive vibes, and all that other good stuff to both your family and others who are fighting. Hugs to all of you.
I am walking for breast cancer this Sunday with the rest of my hall. Your Tia will be among those in my thoughts as people who were/are strong enough to battle it. I have been very, very lucky. No one close to me has suffered from cancer, the closest person I know is my neighbor, Rosie. Something like cancer so profoundly impacts not only the person diagnosed, but their loved ones as well, and everyone has to rise to the occasion in order to beat it. Looking at Rosie's family, at first it seemed as if they were suffering an emotional cancer, about to lose their mother as you were about to lose your Tia and mother figure. But now everyone in the building is rallied behind her, and she says that she is closer to her sons and husband than ever before.
This effect, and your post, prove true one of the greatest beliefs about humanity. We become stronger with each seemingly-insurmountable odd we face. With each struggle, we realize our great inherent worth to the world around us. Thanks for this post, Karla. May your Tia always be blessed with subsequent good health. Cubandiva, good luck.
Thank You's to everyone for their comments. They really do mean a lot to me. Thank you to all of you who shared such personal stories. It helps to know that there are other's out there who have gone through this.
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