Marina Prinsloo, Rider. Letsetele (Limpopo).
3 year survivor.
Diagnosed: 2008. Age: 51.
As a child born with a split pallet and harelip Marina was the butt of many jokes, and sometimes sympathetic stares. At the same time, Marina was also lucky enough to have parents who, despite having financial difficulties always found a way to pay for reconstructive surgery in an attempt to make life a little easier. Little did Marina know, that the difficulties of childhood would be the key to making her into the strong, independent woman she is today. One who has found the courage and the will to fight this demon called "breast cancer".
At the age of 48, on the 21st of November 2008, Marina was diagnosed with Lobular Cardamom (HER 2 positive). Just weeks before her 49th birthday, on the 1st of December 2008, Marina had a bilateral mastectomy, and lost all the lymph nodes under her left arm and six under her right. Marina's life was changed, and knows things will never be quite the same again. Marina will never take good health for granted again, and appreciates each day to the full.
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