iryna kovalchuk is our colleague, a journalist from transcarpathia with 15 years of experience.lways positive, energetic, persistent, successful woman, one day she was forced to slow down for two years and even drop out of social life. it was in 2020, iryna recalls her most difficult period. there was covid, a strict quarantine and i missed one gynecologist examination a year. and so it turned out that after two years, coming after all, to my gynecologist, my doctor suspected that she did not like something in my left breast , and accordingly referred me to a mammologist, well , that’s how it all started, the tumor is malignant, irina is diagnosed with breast cancer, the rarest and most severe form of with the lowest survival rates, fear, agony, despair, moment, how to tell children, how to tell mother that your child has such a terrible disease, a week of tears and disbelief, iryna went through all the stages of acceptance, giving up is not with her character, willpower and thirst for life. i was clinging to what for the fact that i have something to live for and move on, these