I’ve been diagnosed with breast cest when I was in high school.  I actually felt it was there during my elementary years.  I felt a lump in my right breast, a small button like knob.  I never mind it since I had no knowledge about breast cancer and the like.  The pain begun in my high school years, and the doctor advised me to massage it with a bottle containing hot water every night.  The pain is bearable so we were not alarmed that it’s terminal.  When I was in college, it grows faster than I thought and it never stops hurting me.  Together with my mom, I consult an OB Gynecologist and she advised me to undergo an operation to take out my breast cest.  It’s not so scary because the lump is movable and there is no chance of infections so breast cancer is evitable.  I was not in favor of the operations since she said it would be better to rest for 1 year, after the operations.  My parents gave me a choice: To undergo operation and stop education or vice versa.  I am not allowed to choose both.  I love my education so much rather than my health.  I was young and naïve then, health is not my priority. 

After years of study and I am now a career woman.  Six (6) months ago, I’ve decided to take the lump in my breast and my OBGYNE is against it since I am three (3) months pregnant.  She told me there is 70% chance that my lump would be held after giving birth.  Fortunately my breast cest was gone after I’ve given birth.  There is a medical explanation as to why it happens.  Sometimes, the hormonal changes that women go through in pregnancy period affect my cest.  It is completely healed and I know, my faith in God together with the natural healing power of motherhood has a lot to do with it.  If I pushed thru that operation, I would have been half a woman at least that was what I believed then.  My decision to choose my study is luckily right, but I would never take chances again.  My baby depends on me and her father and I won’t take the same risk again because breast cancer is rampant nowadays.  I realize that my health is worth a thousand times than what I would learn.