Nancy Bellen Santa Rosa, California United States Amazon Heart Thunder United States 2006 and 2008 Experienced Rider Click Here to Donate Now!

I can’t wait to ride with the Amazon Hearts Thunder team again in September!

I was 32 years old when I was diagnosed. I was 8 weeks pregnant, with a 3 year-old son.  My husband and I were busily working more than full time at our small business. The story goes like this: the cancer was hormonally fed and growing very fast.  We terminated my pregnancy, and the tumor size shrank overnight. Two days later I started neo-adjuvant chemotherapy. After 2 of the 4 rounds I would receive, the tumor was no longer palpable.

I had a sentinel node biopsy and a lumpectomy followed by radiation, tamoxifen and some very good luck. Riding with the Amazon Hearts Thunder ‘06 team, I celebrated the 10-year anniversary since my diagnosis of breast cancer.

I had hoped that that would be the end of it all, but the benign biopsy's that had plagued me for the pervious 10 years continued and were becoming more frequent.  Taking under consideration the latest studies and the advisement of some very smart Doctors, I elected 11 years out to have a double mastectomy last July.

It is a fact: breast cancer is an adventure.

And riding motorcycles: that make me feel like me.

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