A local nurse is now a patient after a devastating diagnosis. The young mother and wife are currently undergoing chemotherapy after discovering a lump she thought was caused by breastfeeding but turned out to be breast cancer.
After the tumor didn’t go away, Felicia Bennett went in for an ultrasound followed by a biopsy. Then came the news that no one wanted to hear.
“I’m still the same, this isn’t my life, you know,” Bennett said. “I, I accepted it now, but you just didn’t think it would happen to you. I am only 31 years old”
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, I’m a nurse and a wife and I’m used to taking care of patients, so it’s just… I just thought, oh this is one of those things. My patient we’re talking about, not me,” Bennett said.
After working in the COVID unit for over a year, she has another battle on her hands.
“Very nervous, scared, not knowing the outcome. It’s worrying,” said Adam Bennett, Felicia’s husband. “Like I said, honestly, just not knowing is the biggest fear for me.”
Bennett says her husband Adam’s positivity has been a light throughout the process.
“She is the strongest woman I have ever met in my life,” Adam said. “She is also the smartest woman I have ever met in my life. Like I said, she’s just an amazing woman and I know she’ll get through this.”
Bennett had to stop working and take a break from graduate school.
Although she doesn’t like to receive money, there is a GoFundMe help her family with the bills.
“I’m 100% the type of person who always looks 20 steps ahead of me, so I can’t do that anymore, I just have to do it day by day,” says Bennett. “So I got out of bed and I was doing what I had to do that day. I don’t try to plan my life like I used to. I have chemotherapy today and we’ll see how I feel. ”
Even if you’re as young as she is, Bennett still wants people to do their own checkups and mammograms. If she hadn’t felt that lump, she’s not sure what would have happened.
