Somehow Amanda survived a death sentence
Amanda McDonald, 50
Hearing the heartfelt speeches, I was overwhelmed.
All these lovely people were here for me.
But my friends and family hadn’t come together to celebrate my wedding or a big birthday. They’d gathered to mark the end of my life.
I was at my own funeral. Two years earlier, in October 2013, then aged 40, I was in the shower when I felt a small hard lump in my left breast. It felt about the size of a gobstopper.
As a volunteer at a cancer charity, I knew