Hygena Reid -POLICE DEPARMENT What
MEMBER'S STORY
were
your
thoughts/feelings
initial
after
your
diagnosis? My initial thoughts/feelings were that
I
funds
didn’t to
have
take
sufficient
care
of
this
disease so how am I going to
my
manage? I started to scream
diagnosis was my ability to encourage
thinking how my children were
"My
biggest
self-discovery
after
and motivate others whether they have the disease or not because I wish I had more knowledge about it."
going to take the news because they were so worried about it while waiting for the results.
How and when did you find out you had the disease? My name is Hygena Reid affectionately called “Genie”. At age 52 years I was diagnosed with
What was your biggest fear? My
biggest
battle
fear
and
was
leaving
losing
my
the
children
stage 3 breast cancer on the 7th of June 2019 and
although they were all grown up. I
I did a mastectomy on the 13th of June 2019. One
wasn’t even living a true Christian
morning on my way to work in January 2019 one of my nipples felt itchy. When I got home that evening the nipple was stuck to the brassiere. I didn’t even think of cancer because I did a
life either but nevertheless my faith was very strong so I started to pray more. What was the most difficult part of your
journey
mammogram in November 2018. I have always
overcome it?
done my mammograms yearly and the results
The
were always normal, but what I have learned
journey
about breast cancer and mammograms is that you
can
do
a
mammogram
diagnosed tomorrow.
today
and
get
most
and
how
difficult was
the
part
did
you
of
my
treatment
(Chemotherapy)which I started two months after surgery. However, I just thought positive thoughts and tried to remain happy.