“I had heard about it,” Florence explained. “I didn’t think it was a common thing. I really thought it was something that you would feel and that you knew you were experiencing and that it wasn’t really a concern.
She continued. “And then of course, you find out that you’re doing it and you realize that you have to change your lifestyle and you have to know when you can be proactive and think ahead, which I think for a lot of young women, that’s not really necessary. What do you think about doing when you’re in your 20s or even younger than that.
But despite the shift in perspective that the diagnoses have brought, Florence is grateful that she can use her experience to help guide others.
She adds: “I was able to tell my friends what I was going through,” she said. “Since then, I think two or three of my friends have gone for a checkup because of my findings, and they also found out that they have the same thing. So, by me learning the finer details of the information, it led other women to go and check to see if they had the same thing too.
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