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Amanda's story

 

“After my first bout of chemo, the pain was so excruciating, I just wanted to die. I could no longer breastfeed my son. I would sleep at the other end of the house so I couldn’t hear him cry for me.”

 

When Amanda Archibald was diagnosed with breast cancer, she was still breastfeeding her youngest child, Lleyton.

 

“I found a very small lump and thought after a week if it hadn’t gone, I would get it checked out. Four months later, I’d had a mastectomy and my first bout of chemo.

 

I lay in bed and threw up for five days after I got home the first time. I couldn’t see my kids for days on end as they kept asking, ‘Why did the doctor hurt you?’

 

“I’d lost my hair, my breast and I couldn’t look after my children.”

 

Amanda was lucky that her husband, mother and closest friends were there to help her and that thanks to advances in treatment she’s now enjoyed two years without cancer.

 

 

“Live life to the fullest”

“My friends and I made a pact that ‘Now this has happened to you, we’re going to go out and live life to the fullest.’ We spend so much time together, plus we help out with Cancer Council events whenever we can.”

 

The money that you help raise through Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea will help fund some of the most advanced cancer research taking place anywhere in the world, offer thousands of adults and children the information, advice and support they need to cope with cancer, and keep our professionally staffed Helpline up and running.

 

For people like Amanda Archibald, who know exactly what it’s like to be diagnosed with cancer, services like these can make an incredible difference.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amanda is an active supporter of Cancer Council events

 

 

 

 

 

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