Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Healthy and Happy








The story behind the silhouette:
"My aunt had breast cancer. She died when I was very young. Her battle was long and painful. Back in the early 70's, you pretty much did what the doctors told you to do. Even though she was a nurse, she went along with the few treatments they recommended. At one point, she had a mastectomy. She always said she didn't mind giving up one breast, she had a spare. The protocol at the time didn't suggest that a double mastectomy would be warranted and for her, it was fatal. The cancer was unpalpable in the remaining breast and the technology available during that time didn't detect it. Unfortunately, by the time anyone caught on that there were multiple malignancies that the chemotherapy didn't destroy, my aunt's entire body was shot through with the disease.
One breast. That's all it takes. One lump. One breast. One stray cell.
I can never look at one breast and not think of her."
posted by Lisa on 09.29.04 at 10:46 PMPings for this entry:
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