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My name is Liz and I was diagnosed with DCIS 3 years ago. When I was told I had cancer it was like being hit by a train. Everything that happened after that was like it was happening to someone else. I felt as though I had no control over the events that took place, I was just travelling along a fast moving conveyer belt. One day I was normal and the next my whole life had crashed. On May 26th 2008 I had a left breast mastectomy and luckily I didn't have to have any other treatment. My breast was gone and no one seemed to understand the loss that I felt ( and still feel) I chose to have reconstruction surgery straight away but unfortunately my surgeon did not do a good job so I had to have a couple of unneccessary operations to try and put it right. I am lucky to be alive and well but the end result of the surgery is far from how I imagined it to be. It has taken 3 years to come to terms with what happened to me but I now feel I can look forward to a better, healthier future.
I am extremely grateful to the people at Breast Cancer Care WA for the support and care they have given me.
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