It’s been one year since the start of Bad Right Breast, and we’re going to take a summer hiatus after next week’s episode.  We’re preparing to return in the fall with three new series:  Motherless Daughters, Artists’ Stories & Meta Stories.  If you feel you have a story to tell in any of these categories, please reach out to us as we’d love to share it.  Next week, will be our first episode in the Meta Stories series.

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This is the LAST episode of the original THEIR STORIES series.  When you’re diagnosed with breast cancer, there’s not some magic switch that turns on and you all of a sudden become a supreme being.  You’re still the same person as you were before, just dealt with a horrible diagnosis, and forced to go through some really tough shit.  I asked each of our first 15 volunteers what they thought of the words – survivor, warrior, hero - ...

Adina is the reason there are inconsistencies in the number of first volunteers for the THEIR STORIES series.  There are a couple of places in which I say there were 14 interviews, and then Adina got back to me and became the 15th.  I didn’t care about the inconsistencies, as with a secondary diagnosis my new perspective sometimes is – oh well.  I knew Adina was well worth it. You’ll hear why for yourself.

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Living in that fear of your cancer returning can be debilitating.  Living in that fear can cause some real trauma, more than living with cancer itself.  The mind games, they come back to play and they will play tough.  So you need to find a balance and figure how to win the mind game of that fear of the return.
 
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Imagine being a student in grad school, and finding out that you have breast cancer.  That’s Tiffany’s story.  As the youngest of those to be interviewed thus far, she tells a story about finding her tumor, going through the university health care system, the decision to have a double mastectomy, treatment and more.  As a woman who researches for a living, she thought she knew exactly what she was in for.  But sadly, cancer treatme...

You know those moments, when you think it can’t get any worse, but then it does?? Well, that’s Shana’s story.? It’s a story that is a huge reminder that NONE of our cancer journeys, like our cancer, are the same.? And if you didn’t believe it before, Shana will definitely make you a believer now.? But who would have thought that having breast cancer would be the LEAST of your worries…

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We all need that one thing that does a bit of a reboot to our soul.  For some, it’s work.  For others, it’s a hobby, or their religion.  Whatever it is, know that it’s good to try to find it sooner than later.  Because when that moment hits you – and it will – you’ll need that zen to be there to help get you through. 

Music by Becca Ayers
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Heather is a straight forward, hard core working mom of three kids, the youngest as 14 months at the time of her diagnosis.  Trigger Warning:  Heather has a dark sense of humor.  Heather speaks with a rawness that you may need to be in a safe place, if you will, when you listen.  Oh, and you most definitely will laugh your ass off too. 

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There is something about knowing that your cancer is going to affect others.  AFTER you and your loved ones get through all of the diagnosis & treatment, which alone affects just simply how you have to live and survive day to day – as those days, months, sometimes years are not NORMAL.  After all of THAT, you’re all on the other side.  And are all affected, as cancer affects everyone.

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Whenever you go through a drastic event in your life, you are changed.  Whether it’s something good or bad – when you get to the other side you’re changed somehow.  It affected you.  Cancer no doubt changes you.  It affects not only your daily outlook on life, but it changes how you react to things, how you care for things, how you plan for things.  Here from our fearless ladies answer how cancer affected them as a woman, a mother,...

Talking about cancer isn’t easy.  But it’s definitely one of those things, at least it is for me, that the more you talk about it, the easier it is.  And the more people you talk about it with, the more you learn.  So I’m so incredibly grateful to the infamous 15 – who so willingly talked about their cancer with me. 

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A mom, and now grandma, who did regular self-exams, and found her cancer by feeling something that was just not quite right.  And took control of her situation like taking the bull by the horns.  Had multiple ups and downs, as we all do, but as Sheila tells it, it’s how you handle those ups and downs that truly tells who you are.         

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Before Allyson found her cancer, she was actually getting regular mammograms for four years.  However her cancer was found because she felt a pain in her breast, right where her underwire bra fit, and knew that it wasn’t right.  Her doctor swore it was nothing, most likely due to the fact that she was getting those regular mammograms.  But she was diagnosed with DCIS.   She was that RARE form of DCIS.  While DCIS is now found far m...

Part 2 of 2:? Nine of the 15 women interviewed in the THEIR STORIES series had a mastectomy of some sort. ? As you can imagine the details are pretty extensive.? So here’s part 2 of 2.? Their story of how they came to the decision of mastectomy, single or double, then their procedures, reconstruction and recovery.?

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Graphic Art by Justin West
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