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Archive for the Breast cancer Category

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Fleeing Breast Cancer, I Found a Miracle

On October 31, 2015   /   Breast cancer, Motherhood   /   2 Comments

I’ve known the month of September to be a wily foe. Perhaps her cunning is a mere protesting of the confusion that comes with bearing two seasons at once. Still, I haven’t liked her much. It was during her days that I lost my mom to breast cancer 26

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Why I Said Yes to Cancer-Preventing Surgery

On August 25, 2015   /   Breast cancer, Motherhood   /   2 Comments

It’s late June, a golden-blue day wrapped in soft, honeyed rustles hinting at untold promises and glories of the summer at hand. My small children are gliding into a friend’s home, their goodbye kisses and laughter floating through tousles of hair. The sparkles fade to dust, swallowed

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Breast Cancer History, Please Don’t Repeat

On December 11, 2014   /   Breast cancer   /   2 Comments

I don’t have breast cancer. I’ve waited to hear those words for nearly six months, after a suspicious mammogram led to a host of other tests and procedures. Each round of results revealed more about what was causing the abnormalities. Ultimately I discovered that I have two

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