Only two days after revealing that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer, Navratilova says she is convinced she will not allow her life to be affected much by the condition.
“My life will not change even though I had to undergo treatment in one place for six weeks,” said the nine-time Wimbledon champion. “I still play hockey, play tennis on the weekend, and commented in a press conference French Open and Wimbledon.”
“Why me?” asks Navratilova
Like most other women diagnosed with this deadly disease, Navratilova could hardly believe, after living a disciplined and healthy life for so many years, that she has been diagnosed with the disease.
“I wasn’t ready for it. It just goes to show that cancer can affect anybody, at any time.” – Martina Navratilova
“I suppose you’re never ready to be told something like that. I was in complete shock,” she said on learning about her medical condition. “I thought: I’m not ready for this. Not now.”
The 53-year-old, who has an all-time tennis record of 31 Grand Slam women's doubles titles, says that always being engaged with sports never let her feel her age and the diagnosis of her breast cancer felt like it was “too early.”
“There is the ‘Why me?’ too, but more than that ‘Why now?’ I wasn’t ready for it. It just goes to show that cancer can affect anybody, at any time.”
“I act as if I’m in my 30s, and mentally my friends might say I’m in my teens.”
No control over cancer
Martina Navratilova has more career titles than anybody else in tennis history. She has been actively involved in sports for most of her life, eats healthy, hardly drinks, and never smokes.
“I feel so in control of my life and my body, and then this comes and it’s completely out of my hands,” said the openly-gay tennis legend.
Cancer won’t get in way of work-commitments
Navratilova will be traveling to London next week to make a speech in support of the gay and lesbian charity Stonewall. She will also commentate at the French Open this year, and honor her other commitments, hoping that treatment of breast cancer does not get in her way.
Navratilova says that she is happy to have the cancer removed from her breast, and though dealing with possibility of it a little tough, if it comes back she’s sure she will “kick its ass again.”
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