JOURNALIST: Jenny Oldland
ANN-MARIE Pligl’s life was thrown into turmoil in 2009 when she was diagnosed with breast cancer — the ensuing treatment left her feeling alone and vulnerable. 
Fast forward three years and a move to Yorke Peninsula to be closer to her son and grandchildren has changed her life again.
Ann-marie has regained her strength and found love, culminating in a wedding by the sea at Point Turton on Saturday to her “wonderful man”, Anthony Williams.
“Looking back now at my diagnosis it still feels like a dream, but unfortunately it was, and still is, very real,” Ann-marie said.
“It still amazes me how the advertisement for a mobile breast screening unit jumped out at me from the local newspaper, something telling me to make an appointment.
“I was 45 years old, busy working as a nurse in Adelaide and had never had a mammogram; there were no signs or symptoms, or any clue disease was slowly attacking my body.
“Out shopping on my day off, I received a call saying I needed to have further tests as some abnormalities had been detected.
“An ultrasound and biopsy found an area of calcification spanning 10 centimetres through my left breast.”
For the full report, see the print issue of this week's YP Country Times.