My friends and family thought I was mad
My friends and family thought I was mad, but I thought, 'I'm going to do it because it might be the last time I perform at that level.'"It was so important to me and I'd invested so much of my life in it."If I was going to die or this was going to spread, I was going to make sure these guys knew how good I was and that it was going to be the best performances I'd ever done."Just days after being awarded the first meijin, Pauline had surgery to remove the small cancerous tumour in her breast and also had a procedure called a sentinel node biopsy.Fortunately, her cancer had not spread and she escaped chemotherapy. Instead, Pauline had four weeks of intensive radiotherapy.She was off work for four months and soon back at her Shotobudo karate class, albeit teaching from the bench.Pauline, who is mum to Laura, 29, Joanne, 27, Claire, 24 and Martin, 22, added: "It was frustrating, I wasn't going to be a cancer victim. At the beginning, I thought, ...