The day my sister came home from the hospital after her first breast cancer surgery, I went to the local drugstore to pick up her initial dose of medicine. I had her insurance information and a $20 bill in my pocket. The pharmacist told me the total was “seventeen fifty.” Great, I thought, I can [...]
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What $20 Gets You
Posted in Women's Health, tagged cancer, health-care reform, healthcare, hospice, insurance on November 4, 2009, | 7 Comments »
Locks of Love
Posted in Equity in the News, tagged breast cancer, cancer, Carolyn Cares, give-a-grad-a-gift, Locks of Love on August 11, 2008, | 9 Comments »
My sister Carolyn (aka “Sherry”), niece Becca, and I once found ourselves in a hospital’s “wig room”, as we called it, trying to find a decent wig for Sherry who had lost all of her hair after a recent bout of chemotherapy. What was a tough situation for all of us became a very funny [...]
Racing for a Cure
Posted in NCCWSL, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, tagged breast cancer, cancer, National Conference for College Women Student Leaders, NCCWSL, Susan G. Komen on June 5, 2008, | 4 Comments »
A little over five years ago, I whispered to my godmother that she was going to be a great-godmother again. Other than my husband, she was the only one who knew about my pregnancy at the time, but she wasn’t going to be able to share the secret with anyone else. You see, I shared [...]
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