The battle of my Thyroid Cancer - metastasis (spread) to the lymph nodes level 4.
On 25th February 2022 mine and my family’s life changed forever. At the age of 23, an otherwise, anatomically healthy and always active girl my world came crashing to a halt. I was diagnosed with cancer.
I think in the world we live in now this is not about the views or the likes to me, I wanted to share this for strength as a women and to hopefully maybe, if just save someone else like me? This can affect anyone, any age, any size… cancer doesn’t discriminate!
I knew that something wasn’t right, I felt the lump and thought it’ll be okay/ it’ll go. My cancer had got so bad that it had swarmed my lymph nodes in my neck, which in turn had wrapped themselves around my vocal nerves. This meant that the surgeon had been diagnosed to take 3 hours extra of his time or I would’ve lost my voice! 💔 I have unfortunately suffered with something called Horners syndrome due to them stretching a nerve in my neck but I am hoping this isn’t forever. It’s an insecurity for now but I am working on it!
If you have a lump, bump or just not sure please go and get checked. Feel free to message me or ask me any questions; I am still on this journey but if I can save/ help someone else, all this pain might have been for something!
Due to the shape of the thyroid, the symbol for a thyroid cancer survivor is a butterfly🦋💙
when I woke up from surgery I never honestly thought I would learn to love a scar from one side of my neck to the other… but seeing these photos taken at bybphotography… I didn’t even think about my scar on the photo. I just felt empowered and thankful to be here 🦋💙 x
