GIVING HOPE FOR FREE
SHE’S been through a lot in the past few months: a double mastectomy and the surgical removal of 10 lymph nodes.
But although it’s been a painful and nerve-racking process, Rianda van Wyngaardt isn’t complaining. She knows that if she hadn’t had the surgery when she did, she probably wouldn’t be alive today.
Rianda (59), a marketing manager from Gordon’s Bay, near Cape Town, was diagnosed with breast cancer in August last year. She didn’t have medical aid, so her only option was state health care, which meant being on a waiting list for up to six months.
Her doctor, realising Rianda was running out of
