Anne Cole

It was.

And for context, I suppose I had been I'd been waiting.

We were very deep in COVID at the time.

So I'd been waiting a number of weeks to get into the breast check clinic and initially was told that I most likely had a stage two diagnosis.

So I was kind of dealing with that, but also quite relieved and felt, OK, this is going to have a beginning, middle and end.

It's going to be a tough year.

And then pretty quickly within a few weeks after scans, we knew that it had spread to the bone.

So it was stage four.

So, yeah, just that was a turning point, I suppose.

Just terrifying, really.

I was 45 at the time with a five year old daughter still in preschool and just, yeah, completely, completely terrified about what might be ahead and completely unexpected outcomes.

Yeah, it does.

You know, I knew straight away that I needed medical treatment and I was with the team in the matter.

I still am.

They're incredible, that oncology team.

And they very quickly got me onto a treatment programme.

And, you know, it took a while to realise that I actually wasn't, this wasn't going to be your typical journey where there would be maybe chemotherapy treatment.

surgery and, you know, the things that people expect.

I was put onto an oral chemotherapy programme and I'm still on that targeted therapy.

So I've been very well.