Borskanker is die mees algemene vorm van kanker onder Suid-Afrikaanse vroue en volgens die Kankervereniging van Suid-Afrika (KANSA) se register van 2019 loop een uit 27 vroue die gevaar om borskanker op te doen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2019n Kankerdiagnose boesem dikwels vrees in by mense, en baie mense kan, of wil, nie daaroor praat nie. Tog vind \u2019n mens deesdae meer gereeld mense wat openlik oor hul ondervinding praat \u2013 veral om vir ander kankerlyers \u2019n boodskap van hoop te bring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oktober is Borskanker\u00adbewusmakingsmaand en Hermanus Times<\/i> het met Liana Swart, \u2019n prokureur van Caledon, oor haar onlangse reis met borskanker gepraat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cBorskanker is op 20 Maart 2023 by my gediagnoseer. Wat eintlik \u2019n uitstappie na \u2019n winkelsentrum moes wees, het toe half in \u2019n nagmerrie ontaard,\u201d vertel Liana. \u201cOmdat ek 47 jaar oud was, het ek besluit om vir \u2019n mammogram te gaan \u2013 my heel eerste. Die mammogram het niks buitengewoon gewys nie, maar omdat ek digte borsweefsel het, is ek vir \u2019n borssonar gestuur en di\u00e9 het onre\u00eblmatighede uitgewys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk moes die volgende week gaan vir \u2019n biopsie, maar ek het steeds nie gedink iets is fout nie. In daardie stadium was ek vir \u2019n akte-eksamen ingeskryf en dit was letterlik die oggend toe ek daarvoor begin leer dat my dokter my gebel het om te s\u00ea die uitslag is nie so goed nie,\u201d s\u00ea Liana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Op \u2019n vraag oor hoe sy gevoel het toe sy hoor dit is borskanker, antwoord Liana: \u201cEk dink \u2019n mens is maar geskok. Ek het dit glad nie verwag nie, want ons het nie \u2019n familiegeskiedenis van borskanker nie. Ek het ook vir die genetiese toets gegaan en die uitslag was dat dit nie geneties is nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGewoonlik word \u2019n behandelingsplan binne ses weke n\u00e1 diagnose aangebied, maar omdat ek in daardie stadium eksamen geskryf het en besig was by die praktyk, het ek gevra dat hulle net so \u2019n bietjie moet wag sodat ek my dinge agtermekaar kon kry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het gedink dis net \u2019n knop wat hulle gaan uitsny. Ek het nie verwag dat ek chemoterapie en bestraling moet kry nie. Ek was gelukkig om omtrent geen newe-effekte te h\u00ea nie. My lang, blonde hare het wel uitgeval, maar ek was nie baie emosioneel daaroor nie. Ek het nie \u2019n pruik gedra nie, maar wel mussies,\u201d noem Liana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het nie \u2019n mastektomie ondergaan nie. Die onkoloog het ges\u00ea ses maande vroe\u00ebr sou hulle dit nie kon opmerk nie, en ses maande later sou ek in baie groot moeilikheid gewees het. Die tydsberekening was perfek. Ek het \u2019n baie groot stuk genade ontvang en glo dit was \u2019n bestiering van die Here dat dit so moes wees. Ek dink wat \u2019n mens ook vir jouself s\u00ea, is dat indien jy dit nie sou maak nie, dan is dit ook reg so. Ek is \u2019n realis, dus besef \u2019n mens dit is \u2019n moontlikheid dat jy daarvan kan sterf,\u201d s\u00ea Liana. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liana het nie bevraagteken hoekom dit met haar gebeur het nie, maar eerder gevra hoekom ni\u00e9 met haar nie. \u201cEk is \u2019n survivor<\/i> en het geweet ek sal hierdeur kom. My geloof het my definitief hierdeur gedra. Daar is soveel mense vir wie dit heeltemal anders verloop, dus voel \u2019n mens dalk in \u2019n sekere sin skuldig dat jy dit oorleef en soveel ander nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het \u2019n WhatsApp-groepie gestig waar ek almal op hoogte kon hou van wat met my gebeur. Dit was letterlik daai mense wat my staande gehou het; wat vir my gebid het; wat my gedra het,\u201d s\u00ea Liana. Sy noem ook dat dit belangrik is om jouself nie af te sonder as so iets met jou gebeur nie, want daar is ander mense wat op dieselfde reis as jy is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Liana sluit af met: \u201cMy leuse was: Every morning you get up, you dress up, but you never give up<\/i>. My pad hier is nog nie voltooi nie.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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