If You Were Able to Come Face to Face With Breast Cancer, What Would You Say?

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Karen Schelhorn Breast Cancer

I am a 68-year-old woman and my breast cancer was discover during a routine mammogram. Since my mother died of Metastatic breast carcinoma I decided that I should have my mammogram regularly. I also had been treated for endometrial and renal cancer 2 years earlier. So I had a diagnostic mammogram followed by an ultrasound...

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Go ahead. Vent your frustrations. Share how you persevere in the face of the everyday struggles of breast cancer.

When I first met you I was scared because you killed my mother. I had been fighting you for a few years with mammograms and self-exams. You were caught on a mammogram I had exactly 1 year from the last one. I was already fighting endometrial and kidney cancer and was beating them so I had no thought of letting you kill me. I also believe in the "Most High God" as Jesus has saved me from "The Evil One" who comes to "kill steal and destroy". Cancer is one way he does that and I will fight with all I've got. Prayer and sharing with others is one way I fight back added to medical intervention. I also donate a little to breast cancer prevention organizations.