Being Breastless · Victoria Birchall

All right.

That's amazing.

Yes.

Yeah.

So you had breast cancer first, then you had the antiphospholipid syndrome, and then you had the inflammatory arthritis in your hands? I didn't know.

No.

So I had the miscarriages with the antiphospholipid, then celiac, then the breast cancer.

Oh, okay.

And then the arthritis was finally diagnosed.

Although that those joint problems had been there for, I think about 10 years before anything really showed up on scans.

So, yeah, so the breast cancer was when I was 45.

So, coming up for four years ago.

Okay.

And because when I met you, you had already been diagnosed with all of these things.

Yes.

And I can't remember what you said to me exactly.

I don't know if you'll be able to remember it, but where, where was your mind at having been diagnosed with four different things? I was

just like, what is going on? If I have this healthy lifestyle and do have a positive mindset, I don't like to complain about all that stuff or anything like that or really think of myself as having those illnesses, if you will.

So, in fact, I really try not to think about any of that, to be honest.

So I was kind of fed up of it all, wondering...

if I'm being healthy and I've got this positive mindset, why are these things just like one thing after another appearing quite an early age? Like it was not something I would expect someone in their forties to have had all of these already basically.

So, um, yeah, I was really just looking for some answers or other answers other than it's just bad luck and it's in your genes and there you go, basically, especially with the breast cancer.

Um, when I had a look at all the risk factors, basically I didn't take any, I didn't take any of them.

It was just crazy.

I was looking down the list, apart from being a woman looking down the list.