By Jill Rackham
Breast cancer, you’ve changed my life and I’m getting cross with you now.
How is it that my dear friend also has a diagnosis somehow.
Eleven months after hearing those terrible words.
My friend had to hear them too, this is just so absurd.
But thank goodness breast cancer we both found out you were there.
And we have massively supported each other to help lessen the scare.
We have together analysed the words of our oncologist and surgeon.
Discussing everything in detail to try and reduce our mind’s burden.
Even though our treatments and surgery gave us ailments and pain galore.
We were always going to do anything to make sure that cancer was no more.
We could talk to each other so honest and openly.
Whilst helping each other to try and still see things positively.
The hard-hitting words we have both heard will never leave us be.
And maybe in years to come our journeys will get muddled and we won’t know which parts happened to my friend or me.
We are now both adapting to our new normal life.
And have hopefully overcome so much of our strife.
Dealing with cancer is certainly tough for me and my friend.
But I know the friendship bond we now have definitely has no end.
We have felt each other’s pain in the darkest of moments, and now want life to be full of cheer.
Breast cancer, we WILL overcome you, because you definitely have picked on the wrong two friends here!
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