My October birthday
Dear Marbs, Sybil Bowen a grandmother who I never met died when she was 53 years old from her second battle with breast cancer. I heard she was a very smart business-minded lady. She survived ten years after her first breast cancer diagnosis which in those days were still test runs of what worked from what didn’t. My Dad says I remind him a lot of her, right down to facial similarities; maybe Daddy maybe! Lol! And then there is me, TJ Marbell diagnosed with stage one in 2020, HER2+ which just means the very hormone that makes me scientifically a woman also feeds any cancerous cell in the body. So what happens then? Fourteen rounds of chemo and hormonal treatment by infusion then by pill for 5 to 10 years of pushing my body into menopause at the age of 35. Actually, if you are really counting I have been going through menopause since 32. A mastectomy and breast implant of one breast which I might add I have to take additional medications to just have this thing move freely and not...
