Pick Me Up! Special

EVERY SECOND COUNTS

Standing under a stream of hot water, I wiped soap suds over my body.

The smell of my favourite shower gel filled the bathroom, and I felt my muscles relax under the hot water.

I had been getting a lot of pain in my body – especially in my back and right arm.

My GP had put this down to endometriosis, something I have had since I was 19.

Only, as I washed the soap from my chest, I noticed something strange.

A stretch mark on my breast – a reminder of my pregnancy with my son Cameron, now four – had stretched.

It looked wider.

That’s strange, I thought. I think something might be wrong.

I wasn’t sure what was happening to me, but I knew something wasn’t quite right.

I knew my body, and the pain I had been feeling, and the changes to my breasts wasn’t normal.

‘I’m going to go

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