Personally, one thing I'm proud of is that I was never embarrassed for my mom throughout her experience with breast cancer. No matter how awful my mom looked, somehow it just wasn't embarrassing. I can picture her nearly bald head and tubes and pasty whiteness, and it just wasn't embarrassing. And I think I can speak for most kids who... Read more
If I were to describe the event that shook me, that made me realize that, yes, my mom had breast cancer, and yes, she might die, it would be this.
The circus came to town every year, and every year me, my mom, and my dad went to see it. I got cotton candy and popcorn and arched my neck to see the trapeze artists, and made fun of the... Read more
As you may've been able to tell if you've followed my first two posts, on learning about my mom's cancer diagnosis and the constant questions that followed, the nature of breast cancer, the idea that doctors can put it into permanent remission, and the fact that it doesn't happen over night, led me to a kind of complacency. Because my... Read more
Nikolai Hamel: Many people have breast cancer, or have lost family or friends to the disease, but they don't start breast cancer research funds like The Pink Agenda. What inspired you to do more?
Marisa Lee: That's an interesting question because before my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, she spent nine years battling... Read more
I have to admit, sitting here at the computer, 7 years after my mom's breast cancer diagnosis, my memories have started to lose their clarity. Not in the events themselves, but their chronology has become tangled together; vines on a wall so to speak. I'm not sure when it began, but I know the constant questions were the first challenge.
I can... Read more
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