Buddy Check 3: Chiquita Frazier
SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — One in eight women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime, but mammography saves lives.
In today's Buddy Check 3 report, a Savannah woman credits St. Joseph's/Candler's Hospital on Wheels with saving her life during a routine mammogram.
Chiquita Frazier, admin and educator at Massie Heritage Center, is sharing her own history; her breast health journey.
'When I was 11 I had a lump on my left side,' she said. 'It was benign, but they ended up removing it.'
After surgery that young girl walked through life with joy while understanding doctors orders to begin having her annual mammogram at age 30. Now 49, a mother of 3 and a grandmother, she's opening up about a new season in her life that reactivated worry.
'I didn't realize I had a lump because my breast,' Frazier said. 'It was so dense.'
That news was revealed in March 2021 after Frazier had her mammogram on St. Joseph's/Candler's mobile mammography bus.
The breast cancer was in the same breast where that benign lump was discovered at age 11. Then, she had to break the news to her children
'I told them I'm okay, and I'm gonna be okay. but I had to tell God that I couldn't do this, that he had to do it. I gave it all to him.'
Genetic testing followed and her cancer was removed, but Frazier's battle was far from over.
'I had to do 3 draws of chemo, and I did radiation every day, I think for 40 days.
At this point Chiquita started losing her hair and was in excruciating pain.
'Cancer is real, but i really think god allowed me to see me and get to know me through all of this.'
So she leaned on her faith and what she calls an awesome chemo team at the Lewis Cancer & Research Pavilion a place of hope.
'They knew my good days, they knew my bad days,' Frazier said. 'I always had a smile on my face.'
How is she feeling right now?
'Right now, I'm grateful,' she said. 'I'm not feeling the best , but I'm grateful because I'm here. I'm here to tell a story. I'm here to encourage other people. I'm here to say you can do all things through Christ, who strengthens you.'
Frazier says she's forever grateful to her former employer, the Housing Authority, for bringing the mammography bus to her job in 2021.
St. Joseph's/Candler's mobile mammography unit serves 15 counties in our region.
If you're interested in setting up a mammogram day at your school or business, call 912-819-6140.
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