Heather Smith

Survivor

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Too Tough For Cancer

I am a Single mother of two little boys 5 and 8 I was first diagnosed with breast cancer at 26 stage 2 lobular carcinoma I went through radiation and chemo had a lumpectomy went in to remition. In 2014 I was diagnosed with a stage 4 lobular carcinoma at the age of 29. I had a radical double mastectomy and the start of a diep flap reconstruction. I had many complications from June 30 2014 to august 8 2014 I had 8 surgeries. My children told me everyday that I was to tough for cancer. Their love got me through. In December 2015 I will have been in remition for 1 year .