“I’d heard of it,” Florence explained. “I didn’t think that it was something that is common. I really just thought that it was something that you’d feel and that you’d know you had and that it wasn’t really a worry.”
She continued. “Then of course, you find out you do and you realize you have to change your lifestyle and you have to figure out when you can be proactive and think ahead into the future, which I think for lots of young women, that’s not really necessarily what you’re thinking of doing when you’re in your 20s or even younger.”
But despite the perspective shift the diagnoses caused, Florence is grateful that she can use her experience to help guide others.
“I’ve been able to tell my friends about what I’m going through,” she added. “And since then, I think two or three of my friends have gone to go and get checked because of my findings and they’ve also found that they have the same thing. So already just by me learning the tiniest bit of information, it’s led for other women to go and check to see if they also have the same.”
