If My Breasts And Ovaries Are Removed, Will I Ever Feel Like A Woman Again?

Rays of Resilience: 31 Stories in 31 Days. So many people around the world have been affected by breast cancer, yet no two breast cancer journeys are the same. This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’re celebrating a new survivor every day. Their resilience is an inspiration to us all.


My name is Corean.

This is my truth…

Before March 3rd, 2017, I thought a “breast cancer survivor” was a woman who had breast cancer and did not die from it. Boy was I wrong!

“Survivor” doesn’t give justice to what it is we really overcome. It’s more than just “not dying.” It’s about surviving the mental abuse that cancer will put you through; it’ll have you questioning and second guessing every decision you once were so sure of. It’s about surviving the emotional abuse that too often leaves you feeling crippled, but with no crutches. It’s about surviving while everything you once knew about yourself is being taken by an unseen imposter that confusingly… is you!

It’s about surviving through every life-changing surgery, some so painful that at times you forget how to breathe, praying for it to at least lessen just enough to catch your breath; but over time the pain does lessen, unknowingly strengthening the way that we will view ourselves, becoming proud to wear our permanent badge of honor that we wear so beautifully, becoming so much more than just our scars.

But that won’t happen until we overcome everything we once never thought we could, like having a breast removed, possibly having our ovaries removed and put on hormone therapy to stop the estrogen that fuels the cancer — something that left me asking, “If you take all of that from me, then how will I ever feel like a woman again?”

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Being a survivor is the moment we are handed the pen which our oncologist gives us and we are told to place our signature on a form (before we are given chemotherapy) stating that we understand that chemo will kill some of us.

For me, being a breast cancer survivor doesn’t have anything to do with whether I survive or not; it’s the possibility that maybe, just maybe, because of the fight that I’m fighting today, it will give my children and your children a greater possibility to never have to wonder whether they will lose their fight to breast cancer, because we already fought that fight for them.

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