Trisha Overcomes Cancer
Trisha Goddard has done it. She’s in the clear. Trish has battled cancer but is currently clear of the disease. She has been told to have tests done every six months. Trish Goddard had been diagnosed with breast cancer just by chance. The reason for her going for a medical examination was because she wanted to better her level of fitness. She needed a scan done due to an injury sustained while running. When she was there the hospital staff had the sense to ask her the last date of a mammogram. It had been seven long years since the last one. Trish decided to have a mammogram done right away. The test did show she had a lump in her left breast. She wasn’t too worried because she’d had lumps before but in her right breast. The lumps had proved to be benign.
A biopsy had to be carried out. The doctor who carried out the procedure told Trish she probably had breast cancer. This is in fact not how it should be done. It is far better to wait for the test results and then inform the patient. Trish decided she would wait for the actual results before telling her husband and two daughters. The television talk show host described the way she found out as ‘vile’. It was very hard for her to cope with because she had been seeing a psychotherapist for the past year in an attempt to deal with personal issues. It was her psychotherapist who convinced her to tell her husband as soon as possible. Trish took his advice and from that moment her husband Peter has been her ‘rock’.
Trisha Goddard has her very own talk show called ‘Trisha’. The show is made up of the personal suffering of people. Trish admits that it’s ironic she was also struggling with getting to grips with her own ‘demons’. She did have the comfort of Peter’s support when she went to the surgeon’s office for the results. She admitted she did cry when he told her she had cancer. He also confirmed she would need an operation. It wasn’t long before she dried her eyes and wanted to know what she should do. It was only after this she told her two daughters. She also asked them not to ‘treat her any differently’ because she wasn’t a ‘victim’. Trish sounds very proud when she says her girls carried on as normal. This is exactly what she needed to stay strong.
After the operation she was told the cancer had been caught in time. But she still needed to get through chemotherapy. Trish was told not to exercise too much but she kept on running. She says this is what got her through the awful ordeal and symptoms of chemotherapy. The talk show host admits she got angry when she saw ‘obese people smoking’ in the hospital grounds. She was especially annoyed when vomiting into the flowerbeds. But she did get through it all. According to Trish it was a combination of love and support from her family, friends and viewers, the right medical procedures and her running.
