Donna Penny, a brave woman who was diagnosed with early stages of breast cancer when she turned 35 has died.
The 46-year-old battled stage four terminal cancer for the past decade and was forced to have a double mastectomy.
After five years, doctors informed cancer had returned to her lymph nodes. It then spread to her spine, shoulder, bones and liver. Her family shared the sad news on her Facebook page named ‘Why my mommy?’ based on the title of a book she wrote.
”So sad to inform all of Donna’s loyal supporters that she lost her battle. Thank you for all your kind words and keep supporting and empowering awareness of breast cancer in honor of Donna,” the post read.
”Thank you for being patient while we lay her to rest. We would like to keep this page alive and her memory and will be back online soon.”
Her funeral was held in Caloundra on the Sunshine Coast where she has been living for more than a decade after her first diagnosis.
Donna wrote children’s book called ‘Why my Mommy?’ to explain her youngest son Kai what a terminal diagnosis means. Kai was just one year old when Donna was diagnosed.
”He’s only known mommy to be sick,’ Donna told FEMAIL previously. ‘Always going for treatments, scans and checkups.”
”I just felt sick, I felt numb. I thought about Kai having to grow up without a mommy. My focus was to stay alive for as long as I could,”
”People don’t realize that with terminal breast cancer, you can be well one month and gone the next,”
”I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes with that pit in my stomach, wondering how long I’ve got.”
”I try not to think about it but it’s something I think about every day.”
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