Category: Patient Stories

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Life is a journey.   My journey happens to include breast cancer.  I wouldn’t trade my life or the experiences of the past year.  I have met and made incredible friends and strengthened existing relationships.  I have received the blessing of talented and compassionate doctors, nurses and other healthcare providers.  I have accomplished goals that I… Continue Reading »

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I was diagnosed in 2004.  My only child had just moved away to go to college and on his first weekend home I found out I had breast cancer.  There were a lot more adjustments than I had planned for.  This disease changed my life for the better.  I have so much to be grateful… Continue Reading »

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There are 2 things in my life that I never thought I would do–be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 45 and pose in some French lingerie for a photograph.  In fact, both of these events were so foreign to me that not only did I need to do research about breast cancer, I… Continue Reading »

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My mother’s story of breast cancer and reconstruction is far different from mine.  She didn’t know if she had cancer until she woke up from surgery and felt her chest.  Her breast was gone.  Reconstruction was difficult at best, as a radical mastectomy left little to work with.  After years of “pulling herself” off the… Continue Reading »

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I will never forget the years of 2004 and 2005, as they were marked by cancer diagnosis tempered with the joy of becoming engaged and getting married.  In July 2004 I became engaged to my now husband: a wonderful, charismatic, funny, intelligent, and I must say handsome Englishman (think Ralph Fiennes or a Daniel Craig… Continue Reading »

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Upon finding out I had breast cancer, my sister-in-law told me, “Karen, you will get through this and everything will be fine.” These words carried me through my diagnosis, surgery, and reconstruction.  How wise Ruth was.

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