The bald head will not sweat under the knitted cotton cap. Scrambled eggs and bacon is a perfectly acceptable dinner. Underwire bras are a thing of the past. 

Key West real estate agent Martha Robinson (Martha Robinson) said: "The things you learned during the experience are so strange, but I am the luckiest person you have ever met," her doctor said at 4 "Saw a tiny shadow" in the annual mammogram in January. 

"So I had another mammogram," she said. "Then I performed a biopsy, which was not interesting. Then I knew it."

Robinson has breast cancer. This is the first stage, but requires surgery to remove the mass, then four chemotherapy infusions at four weeks intervals, and finally 20 days of radiation therapy, which she will start on November 9.

"So I'm still bald, but strangely, I like it," she said. "I never wanted to wear a wig, so my hairdresser shaved my head. My amazing friend Kellee Bartley appeared in front of me with a cotton cap. I now have a lot of hats. My best One of my friends gave me pajamas. Brenda Donnelly gave up some of the best lip balm and skin cream because chemotherapy would make everything dry. I was surrounded by amazing people. My boyfriend Roy Bishop is definitely a godsend. He made me scrambled eggs and bacon for dinner. This was the only thing that sounded a bit appetizing after my first week of chemotherapy. I don’t know how I would do it without him and others. I really do Is the luckiest woman in the world."

Robinson sees the GenesisCare Oncology Center in Key West as a local miracle. The center provides chemotherapy infusions and radiation therapy in North Roosevelt.

"The treatment I received there was exactly the same as recommended by Tampa's most respected Moffitt Cancer Center," Robinson said. "They gave me a second opinion through Zoom, which is incredible. And knowing that I can get the exact same treatment plan in my hometown among the people I know and love, which is a good thing. Not to mention Speaking of the Women’s Imaging Center on 12th Street operated by the Lower Keys Medical Center. That place is incredible and very supportive. I can’t say enough to everyone.”

For some reason, Robinson has always believed that she will get breast cancer one day. "So I'm really not afraid," she said. "But I am very happy that this happened when I was 69 years old, not when I was young."

She even served as a board member of the Keys Cancer Foundation for more than 20 years. "Mercy Hiller from the Cancer Center founded this organization to help local cancer patients pay rent, mortgages, utility bills, and grocery bills during treatment. I have always been involved.

"I have been doing mammograms every year since I was in my 40s," she said. “I’m 69 years old now, and I don’t care if you print out my age because I want people to know everything so that they will be checked regularly, so women will get their mammograms, so men will get prostate screens. Everyone will be screened for skin cancer and colon cancer. They are very important because even if the news is bad, it can be controlled as long as you find it in time."

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