Hazel Brennan, from Athlone, Co Westmeath, was thrilled to get away on a short break with her husband, John, at the start of this year, but didn’t realise that, following the much anticipated weekend trip, her life would change forever – as the mother of two discovered an unusual “dent” in her breast that turned out to be cancer.
“John and I don’t get away often as we have no family around, but when my sister was over from England for Christmas and New Year, she said she would mind them for a few days so off we went,” she says. “I remember looking in the mirror in the hotel and noticing a short ‘trough’, for want of a better word, under my left nipple. I hadn’t noticed it before and wasn’t worried as I thought maybe I had just hurt myself, but I decided to get it checked out when we got home.
“So, the following week, I went to see my GP who examined me and said that she didn’t know what it was so she made an appointment for me at the breast clinic.
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