National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.

About Me

I am 21. I come from a very loving family. I enjoy every moment I get to spend with them. A few months ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. The day she told me she might have breast cancer, I already knew. I was devastated. I wondered how could this happen to her. She has always been my rock. The strongest person I had ever met. I cried for days. I couldn’t even listen to one of her favorite songs. Because every time I heard it I would wonder if that song would be played at her funeral some day. I was terrified. It seems like everything has happened so fast. First she's sick and all of our lives are going to change. Then she asks me to shave her head. Which I do with so much love in my heart. Right before I shaved her head I had expected it to be very hard. I expected to cry. But as I took the buzzer to her head and the hair fell, I felt hope. I felt like this was a hill that we would ALL climb. But we would climb it together. I knew that no matter what, she was going to make it. She would do what she’s always done. She would come out stronger than ever. Two Chemo’s down and you can see the change in her. Its hard because you see someone you love so much turn into a different person. I've been so angry, not with her, not with god, not with myself, but with the cancer. Its this horrible thing that’s changing my best friend. But though it may be changing her, I refuse to let it take her. I refuse to let it rob me of my girls day out, my laughs, my hugs, my mother, my best friend. So I'm taking everyday as it comes. And I'm holding my head high. Because in my heart I know, she’s a trooper. Even in her weakest moments she is the strongest person I know.