Now a local nurse is a patient after a disastrous diagnosis. The young mother and wife are now undergoing chemotherapy after discovering a lump that they thought came from breastfeeding, but turned out to be breast cancer.
After the lump didn’t go away, Felicia Bennett went in for an ultrasound, then a biopsy. Then came the news that no one wanted to hear.
“I’m still in it like that, it’s not my life, you know,” Bennett said. “Me, I just accepted it, but you don’t think it’s going to happen to you. I was only 31.”
Covenant’s nurse has stage three breast cancer. She is currently undergoing chemotherapy and will have a double mastectomy in May.
“I have a 1 year old and a 3 year old and I’m a nurse and wife and I’m used to taking care of patients, so it just… I thought, oh this is one of my patients we’re talking about Well, I’m not,” said Bennett.
After working in the COVID unit for over a year, he has another battle on his hands.
“Very nervous, scared, not knowing the result. Worried,” said Felicia’s husband Adam Bennett. “Like I said, not knowing was honestly my biggest fear.”
Bennett says her husband Adam’s positivity has been a light throughout the process.
“She’s the strongest woman I’ve ever lived in my life,” Adam said. “She’s the smartest woman I’ve ever met in my life. Like I said, she’s just an amazing woman and I know she’ll get over it.”
Bennett had to stop working and gradually put a stop to school.
Even though he doesn’t like accepting money, there is still a gofundme Helping your family with the bill.
“I’m 100 percent the type of person who’s looking 20 steps ahead of me, so I can’t do that anymore, I just have to take it day in and day out,” Bennett said. “So I’m getting out of bed and I’m doing what I have to do that day. I’m not trying to plan my life like I once was. Today I have chemo and we’ll see how I I feel.”
Even if you’re young like her, Bennett wants everyone to do self-exams and get mammograms. If he hadn’t felt that lump, he wasn’t sure what would have happened.
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