A 34-year-old mother who hesitated for too long to see a doctor about a lump in her breast hopes her story will help others overcome their fears, even if she now only has a few weeks left.
“I feel like I can save someone’s life now. “Here I am, 34 years old, dying because I was afraid to go to the doctor,” mother Kourtni Smith told American media WUSA9, as The Mirror reported on Monday.
With only a few weeks left, the mother of five from Maryland in the United States regrets not seeking advice sooner about a lump in her breast that would have taken her a long time to diagnose for fear of seeing a doctor.
It was only in 2021 that the mother decided to have her tummy checked while struggling to feed her seven-month-old newborn. Then she was diagnosed with stage 3 cancer.
But after just three rounds of chemotherapy in an eight-person program, along with 15 sessions of radiotherapy, she was forced to stop the treatments because her body couldn’t tolerate them, she told a crowdfunding campaign. GoFundMe set up to help his family get through the ordeal.
Last April, her cancer had progressed to such an extent that this time she was diagnosed with stage 4 invasive lobular carcinoma.
“I am writing this from the palliative care room. “Faced with the unfortunate reality that I will not have much longer on this earth,” she wrote further two weeks ago, when she only had a few weeks left.
The thirty-somethings who hoped she could “hold hands.” [de ses enfants] “and lead them to adulthood” regrets that “this dream is fading” and urges those who discover a bump to seek a diagnosis as soon as possible, as she told the American broadcaster WUSA9.