"I had a single mastectomy while 7 months pregnant"

Shauna, you're very, very welcome to Liveline, and thanks a million for, for taking the time to speak to us on a, what is a, a huge day, I know.

Um, what, what happened to you when you were seven months pregnant?

Thanks very much for having me, um, on today.

Um, so when I was seven months pregnant, I was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Um, it was DCIS, and I ended up having a single mastectomy while pregnant on my second little girl.

Um-

So you were seven, seven months pregnant, and you had your-

I-

... your breast removed?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, I had it, I, I kept the skin, had, had a reconstruction on that, um, just to, um, save the skin for f- future reconstruction.

Um, and then, uh, seven weeks after the mastectomy, I had, um, a C-section then to deliver my baby.

And alongside that mastectomy, um, ha- had you to undergo other cancer treatment?

Yeah.

So after I had the baby, so three weeks after having the baby, I started chemotherapy and HER2 treatment, treatment as well.

Um, so I went in every week for chemotherapy every Monday, um, and then I had the HER2 treatment every three weeks alongside of that.

So this is, uh, kind of harrowing stuff, um, for anybody to go through.

The reason we're talking about it today, though, is because outside court, St. James's Hospital apologized to you-

Yeah

... for all of this happening because it shouldn't have happened.

And, and what it all goes back to is a routine breast MRI that you went for eight months earlier, eight months before this diagnosis-

Yeah, nine months earlier.

Yeah

... be- but, or nine months.