Sarah Ferguson considers herself’very blessed to be alive’ following an eight-hour mastectomy.
The 63-year-old novelist is well cared for by her family, with Princess Eugenie, 33, having ‘almost moved in’ to Royal Lodge in Windsor to care for her mother, and Princess Beatrice, 34, on the other end of the phone.
Sarah had a single mastectomy and reconstruction with competent surgeon Christine Choy and his colleague Stuart James, and the treatment was “more complex than people believe.”
A friend of Sarah’s told the Sun: ‘The surgery took getting on for eight hours and was more involved than people think.
‘Today, the message she wants to get out is that she’s very grateful and she feels very lucky to be alive.
The insider added: ‘In Sarah’s case, a biopsy was taken from the shadowy area of tissue and a few days later the results came back to confirm the diagnosis — breast cancer.’
Sarah’s ex-husband, Prince Andrew, 63, is also cheering her on while she heals, as is her former brother-in-law, King Charles, 74.
Sarah confessed that she nearly cancelled the normal mammography that led to her breast cancer diagnosis.
The Duchess of York said she would postpone her meeting because she did not want to travel on a “hot day.”
Speaking on an episode of her Tea Talks with the Duchess and Sarah podcast, which was uploaded just after the diagnosis was made public, Sarah recalled: ‘It was after a bank holiday, and I live in this area — in the Windsor area — and it was a hot day, and I didn’t feel like going to London. It’s easy to put it off — “I’ll do it next week”.’
Jane Ferguson Luedecke, her sister, urged her to travel.
Sarah pledged to get’super fit’ as part of her rehabilitation.
Source My Celebrity Life.
