DIVA: When you first talked about discovering that you had breast cancer you referred to it as your personal 9/11. Could you say a bit more about that?
Martina: Well I think that pretty much explains it. My life would not be the same. Yeah, like 9/11, life will never be the same. Now I can’t just go carefree, I’ve got an alarm going off. Your first thought is, ‘Oh, you’re going to die from this’. Then you realize, no, you’re not, but you know, it’s a hiccup. A great big hiccup.
D: So how have things have changed for you since then?
Martina: No changes really but re-evaluation, I guess. That would be a good way to put it.
D: You took part in a triathlon two weeks after your diagnosis…
Martina: Umm-hmm.
D: Do you think you might need to slow things down a bit?
Martina: Actually, it was two weeks after the lumpectomy. About a month after the diagnosis. But I wasn’t running marathons. It was a 25-mile bike ride for an hour and 15 minutes. The better shape you’re in, the better you fight the radiation anyway. They are suggesting I keep exercising. I’ll probably ride my bike to the radiation.