{"id":20611,"date":"2020-02-28T13:38:37","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cmshub.wpengine.com\/?p=304204"},"modified":"2024-11-03T15:16:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T15:16:49","slug":"mom-of-two-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-at-31-i-just-want-to-see-my-boys-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/mom-of-two-diagnosed-with-breast-cancer-at-31-i-just-want-to-see-my-boys-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom Of Two Diagnosed With Breast Cancer At 31: \u201cI Just Want To See My Boys Grow Up\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

When a 31-year-old woman from Bourne, England, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, she made it her mission to educate women about the fact that the disease can strike at any age.<\/span>Hannah Dring found a lump in her breast while taking a shower.<\/span>\u201cPeople ask me how I found it and it was purely by accident,\u201d she told Stamford Mercury<\/a><\/em>. \u201cWas I regularly checking? No. Should I have been? Yes.<\/span>\u201cI had a lump in the previous year when I was breast-feeding but it was nothing serious, just swollen lymph glands, so I wasn\u2019t too worried. I thought it would probably be the same thing.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Facebook\/Hannah Dring<\/a><\/span>
\n<\/span>But when Dring, who\u2019s a primary school teacher, went to the doctor in September, she found out she had breast cancer. She was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer, which is an aggressive form of the disease. This type is not fueled by estrogen, progesterone, or the HER2-neu protein, which makes it harder to treat.<\/span>\u201cOne in eight women will get [breast cancer] but I don\u2019t want anyone else to go through this,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cI feel like I\u2019m taking one for the team.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Toddlers, Tantrums and a Tumour<\/a>\/Hannah Dring<\/span>
\n<\/span>She also found out that she has a BRCA gene mutation.<\/span>So far, Dring has undergone chemotherapy. She is hopeful that she\u2019ll be able to take part in an immunotherapy trial, and is planning on getting a double mastectomy. Undergoing radiation is also a possibility.<\/span>\u201cThe fatigue is the biggest thing,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s tiring anyway being the mum of two boys but this is something else. Imagine being tired, like when you\u2019ve got a newborn, then triple it.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Toddlers, Tantrums and a Tumour<\/a>\/Hannah Dring<\/span>
\n<\/span>It\u2019s been tough at times for Dring to stay positive, but her husband, Dan, and her two little boys, Dylan and Henry, inspire her to keep going.<\/span>\u201cThe biggest thing for me is that I just want to see my boys grow up,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cI don\u2019t have a choice \u2013 I\u2019ve got to fight this. I just have to get on with it. I can do that being grumpy and miserable or I can do it living my life to the full.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Toddlers, Tantrums and a Tumour<\/a>\/Hannah Dring<\/span>
\n<\/span>Dylan is 18 months, and Henry is three years old.<\/span>\u201cDylan is oblivious but Henry knows I\u2019m poorly,\u201d she said. \u201cHe says, \u2018Mummy\u2019s got a poorly booby.\u2019 He\u2019s used to me going to hospital and he even helped me shave my head. That was one of the hardest things. Now he just strokes my head and asks when my hair is going to grow back.\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Toddlers, Tantrums and a Tumour<\/a>\/Hannah Dring<\/span>
\n<\/span>Besides relying on family and friends, Dring writes in her blog, Toddlers, Tantrums and a Tumour<\/a> to help get her through this time in her life.<\/span>\u201cIf I can support one person, help someone understand or encourage people to check themselves then this blog will have done what I intended to do,\u201d she wrote<\/a>. \u201cI want to help others realise that this disease does not just attack older women\u2026 please be breast cancer aware whatever age you are!\u201d<\/span>\"\"<\/span>Photo: Toddlers, Tantrums and a Tumour<\/a>\/Hannah Dring<\/span>
\n<\/span>\u201cThe most important thing for me is to spread the message to check yourself because this doesn\u2019t just affect older women,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cIt shouldn\u2019t be a taboo subject. \u2018If in doubt, get it checked out\u2019 \u2013 that\u2019s my new motto.\u201d<\/span>Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When a 31-year-old woman from Bourne, England, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer, she made it her mission to educate women about the fact that the disease can strike at any age.Hannah Dring found a lump in her breast while taking a shower.\u201cPeople ask me how I found it and it was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44326,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611\/revisions\/44326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogkologos.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}