I've been a breast cancer survivor for 20 years now. When I was 40, they found a smudge of something. It turned out to be malignant!
After three lumpectomies, six weeks of daily radiation treatments, and five years of estrogen blockers, my breast is a third of its size, but I've been cancer-free since 2006.
October is coming up, and it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
This is AI with a pic of me in downtown Chicago.
I call this my Wonder Bread top!
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Members responded to the question 'Tell us something we don't know about you' with an outpouring of deeply personal stories about resilience... Read more
I tried to write a novel
I was inducted to the Queen City Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009.
My dream job has been to be a poetry writer, I just never found a way to publish my poetry.
I am ambidextrous. That's all I can think of right now.
I think it's important to tell my story.
My 40-year-old screening mammograms saved my life!
My cancer was malignant, and if we hadn't caught it then....
I am quick to show anyone my scar (under my arm),
and tell people my story.