Woman Made A Farewell Party For Her Breasts

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Earlier this year, Andy Sealy received the news that he had breast cancer and needed a double masectomy in such a positive way that he even threw a farewell party for her breasts. The party even had a pink cake in the shape of breasts and this caption: "Thank you for the memories."

Back then the doctors informed Sealy that her cancer was in phase 1, the mildest within her condition. However, after surgery on March 8, the patient received the devastating diagnosis that her disease had metastasized and is in phase 4 after having irrigated 11 of her 13 lymph nodes and her bones.

Her oncologist, Dr. David Mintzer of Penn Medicine in Philadelphia, told People magazine that the turn of her illness is unusual. "Only about 10 percent of breast cancer patients enter with stage 4 disease," he said.

Despite that bad news, the doctor emphasized the tools the patient has in her favor as a hormone therapy treatment for the disease to go into remission. "What we try to communicate to these patients with stage 4 disease," Mintzer said, "is that even though it is not curable, they are living with it, not dying from it. She is not dying. She is in no way close to dying."

The doctor also indicated that a diagnosis like that of the young woman does not mean the end of everything. What a chronic illness is all about, he said, is "to receive treatments to try to minimize the impact and side effects [of the illness] and put [the patient] in remission and keep her well."

And this is how Sealy is seeing the situation, while wanting to take advantage of the hard time she is going through to raise awareness about breast cancer.

Her friends, meanwhile, are planning a party on May 21 for her to raise funds for her medical expenses. They also opened a page on GoFundMe, because they know that their fight against cancer is just beginning and none of them - especially Sealy - are willing to give it a truce.