Breast Cancer Monologue

We all know about cancer; but do we realise the amount of the daily struggles and treatment the patient goes through; and do we realise that not just the patient is affected but all those around them too. It is something that a someone will never get over, but everyone will just have to try and cope with it.

I thought that cancer only affected sick or unhealthy people; yet my aunt was diagnosed with it. I mean, surely it was not real, right? Yes, yes it was real.

The bombshell was dropped on our family two years ago. I found out that my sixty four old aunt, Kath, had breast cancer. The summer after her wedding. The unwelcomed visitor barged into my aunt's life unexpectedly. I never thought of how much it has affected me and my family in a way that I never thought I would experience.

I could not believe what I heard when I received the news. I left the living room to go to bed and I heard a faint voice saying “Should we tell her?” I walked back and asked what the problem was, I sat on the sofa, I stared and waited for someone to speak. I saw the concerned look in my parents eyes. Soon after the
I opened the door to her smiling ear to ear and jumping with elation. She had lost all of her hair; yet was still smiling. This moment really changed my outlook on her, I no longer saw her as the ‘cancer patient’, I saw my aunt as a normal and healthy human being as I have always seen her as a young child.

The experience with my aunt was not only filled with sad and worrying moments it also had those special moments, the moments that I will cherish. My favourite infact was when my aunt started losing her hair and she had to buy her first ever wig. My uncle messaged me on Facebook with pictures of them with Rod Stewart styled wigs! It was bizarre, I never thought that I would see the day my uncle with that amount of hair on his