Life: Stories by Isha

  1. Every time 'Breast this, breast that'; are you the first person to have breast cancer in Nigeria? You are right, I am not and I won't be the last to have breast cancer. This is why I have chosen to be vocal about my experience, as the information I provide may be helpful to someone down the line. So abeg bear with me because I plan to keep disturbing you about this issue, God willing 🙏🏿😋. Before this ordeal, I was one of those who thought that people younger than 40 couldn't get breast cancer. I was diagnosed at 32. Scientifically speaking, my treatment was successful because the cancer was detected early, and it was detected early because I performed my breast exams regularly. This is why I keep making noise - the experts recommend monthly self exams.  Here are some guides to help you perform your own breast exam: Source: Google Say these lemons were breasts, these are some abnormalities to look out for during a breast self exam. Source: Google 2. This level of...

Yes. This is it. This is the reason Breast Cancer is  suddenly  so important to me. * * * After our son arrived in January 2018, we noticed that my breast milk was bloody. My doctors and Dr. Google advised that we monitor for a while, as it was possible that my milk ducts were acting funky from being awakened for the first time. I wasn't feeling any pain and the breast milk wasn't poisoned or bad, so I  forgot about it  monitored for a while, as advised.  In April of the same year, we decided to speak to a general surgeon, as the bleeding hadn't stopped. The surgeon did a physical breast exam and ordered a mammogram. These two tests didn't show any problems, so life continued as usual. It so happened that the bleeding stopped almost immediately after the mammogram, so as far as we were concerned, everything was fine. I had been doing physical breast exams for a very long time, so I continued these without really expecting to find anything...