Tracey’s best friend made an emotional plea to the community to help raise 30 thousand dollars via fundraising platform ‘Go Fund Me.’

Six months ago it was all smiles for a young Caboolture mum who was living the dream of enjoying a happy family, but now a shock breast cancer diagnosis has had a devastating ripple-effect on her, and her loved ones’ lives.

Tracey Harris and family

A Caboolture mother of two is facing the fight of her life with stage two breast cancer while raising two little girls aged just six and three.

Everyday life working full-time in the resource industry, and being a wife to Ryan, suddenly turned upside down for Tracey Harris, 35, as she was forced to fork out thousands of dollars in out of pocket expenses to treat the grade three tumour in her left breast.

Her diagnosis came alongside a triple positive invasive duct carcinoma, that is hormone positive (Progesterone and oestrogen) and Her2+.

Her treatment involves four therapies: two targeting treatments to kill the hormone positive and Her2+ positive, two chemotherapy treatments and then surgery to remove the tumour.

Eighteen months of hormone therapy will follow. One of the targeting drugs is not subsidised on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and has to be paid upfront which is $6.2k for the initial first dose.

“It was a shock and I received the news two weeks after my 35th birthday,” she said.

“I noticed the lump but everyone said it will be a cyst and down played it because of my age but it was devastating,” she said.

“You never think it will happen to you.

“As I heard the news everything went blank and my husband started crying and I tried to hold it together to have to go home to my mum and say its not good news was so hard.

“I was terrified it had spread and how far along it was while being poked and prodded every day.

“I worry about the chemotherapy effects and how tough it is on your body and how everything changes.

“I’ve had to have a blood transfusion already and two hospital stays, it’s scary and I know my long term health will never be the same and it makes you so sick.

“It’s hard and scary as the mum you’re the one looking after everyone it’s tough not being able to do that not make them be worried although I need to step back a little bit.

“We didn’t not want to tell the kids because we are always honest but we came home after finding that out and was crying for days.

“My daughters will need to look out about this genetically.”

Enter, best friend Seanne Peachey who is a nurse and the driver behind a GoFundMe page which has raised almost $20,000 for the young family. There, she shared an emotional message to her best friend and visitors to the site.

“I love you so much Tracey and we will be there with you each step of the way, we’ve got you,” she said.

“I have decided to set up this Go Fund Me page to help Tracey and the family to get the best treatment as well as allow her time to heal without the added financial stressors.

“Your diagnosis is putting extra stress financially on the family with school fees, mortgage, travel/fuel etc, electricity, rates, groceries and so on.

“On top of all the expenses of treatments of course Tracey will not be able to continue working as she was.”

Tracey said it has been amazing to have a friend she’s known since 10 rally support behind her.

“She’s been amazing she lives in the Atherton Tablelands and she came down straight away and drop everything with her two young kids and stayed to help for a week and then made a second trip,” she said.

“My last round of chemo kicks off on 15 December and then we’ll have to have another round to see if it’s shrunk or responded and do surgery in the new years and what that looks like we don’t know yet.

“Do I have a double mastectomy or not? It’s a decision I’ll have to make but I don’t have a choice.”

When asked how her family are coping, Tracey says “it’s hard”.

“My mum and I are close she’s been an amazing support,” she said.

“My husband has times where he struggles to pick up the slack and do everything he can to feel like he is capable of looking after the kids full-time.”

Tracey has stepped into other women’s shoes to share some life saving advice and show brevity in the face of adversity.

“I would say to all mums it’s normal for us to put ourselves last we leave things too long and it’s important we all prioritise our health and wellbeing as much as we do our kids,” she said.

“An early diagnosis is so important if it’s not spread the success rate to treat it and remove it is so much higher. Get in early and beat it.”

For more information and to make a donation visit: Go Fund Me