Tomorrow Revised: How Modern Science and the Women in My Family Changed My Life
I was told of my Mother’s cancer diagnoses as my childhood concluded, and this recollection has permeated my every cell. My Mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer at 43; I was 12 at the time. My mother was a woman of grace and kindness, the kind that you don’t discover very often.
Furthermore learning from experience about the need for additional psychosocial support for cancer patients, and their loved ones, she founded The Wellness Community Cincinnati. I found solace in believing that it was over, the cancer having dissolved in defeat. My mothers reprieve was short-lived; at the age of 51 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. The years after oscillated between moments of hope, and distress, as the cancer would seem to disappear, only to reappear having introduced itself to any organ that should dare to reside in close proximity to her breast. By the age of 55, she was gone.
Unbeknownst to any of us, this was the foundation of a journey, which would lead to decisions that would transform my body and my life.
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