‘The day I was diagnosed, my life changed’

‘I found the lump in my breast when having a shower. It felt like a hard pea on the underside of my breast and it seemed to appear from nowhere, but had obviously been growing for some time.

This was four years ago. I was a successful interior designer; I’d been running my own company for 14 years. I’d also trained to be a Pilates teacher, but a few big projects took off and I hadn’t pursued it further. I was working on