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Our Cindy was a healthy married mum with two children until May 2017 when diagnosed with a triple-negative Breast Cancer diagnosis.
She started chemotherapy straight away in Geelong. Traveling to Geelong every three weeks for treatment which required a night away from home for each treatment. The tumour first started at 3cm in size in the left breast and after three months of treatment on the August 2017 the tumour had shrunk to 1.5cm giving us plenty of hope. Then at the start of September 2017 we started weekly treatment in Portland which allowed us to be each night with family and kids straight after treatment. By the middle of November 2017, chemotherapy was stopped early due the tumour growing in size again. This time it had doubled itself in size from the original diagnose. There was a four week rest period from chemo finishing and surgery taking place in Geelong which was only two weeks before Christmas 2017 meaning another week stay in Geelong. The Breast was removed and some lymph nodes with the tumour growing to a size of 7.8cm when removed, but was told that she would make a full recovery with no side effects. We went back to Geelong again at the end of January 2018 for a six-week treatment of radiotherapy which was done daily Monday to Friday with the only chance of rest was Saturday and Sunday and being severely burnt on the chest from the treatment
This was a hard time missing the children and not being able to see the kids start school for 2018 and only getting back home when the first term of school was nearly finished. After getting home Cindy got an infection from the radiotherapy treatment area taking two weeks to get over this before things started to get back to normal. In April 2018 we were informed that Cindy would need to go back on chemo but this time it would be tablet form for a period of six months and they would reassess after that which was the news we didn’t want to hear at all
In October 2018 Cindy was given the news that she could stop taking the chemo tablets which was the news we thought would not happen
Cindy’s health began to improve and our life was starting to look good with the kids getting their mum back and having plenty of family time then in September 2019 we got the news we had been waiting for Cindy was in remission. This was unfortunately short-lived by the third week of November 2019 we got the news that cancer had come back and it was bad as it was stage 4 breast cancer which had spread into the lung stomach back and neck which meant chemo started again in the first week of December 2019.
Unfortunately, this treatment was to work this time and Cindy lost the battle on the 25th February 2020 leaving behind her two children aged 11 years old and 8 years old and her loving husband, Shannon Collier.