MamasHealth.com Home Letter "C" Stories A Second Opinion Begins with Letter "C" Breast Cancer Recovery Cancer Hope Cervical Cancer Fought Ovarian Cancer HPV Test Saved My Life Letter "C" 2 My Breast Cancer Poem No More Breast Cancer Treatment for Cancer Links Email Mama Addiction stories Anorexia stories Athletic stories Bulimia stories Eating Disorder Family and friends stories Help Me! Herpes stories I'm not healthy stories Medical disease stories Medications and eating disorders Migraine stories Mother stories Recovered Anorexic Recovered Bulimic Recovered Eating Disorder Self esteem stories The Letter "C" Weight stories Mama's Inspirational quotes Mama's Motivational pledges Mama's Health quotes Mama's Poem	Begins with the Letter 'C' What is this word? What does this mean? This word is nasty and I no longer feel clean. All thru my life, I have heard this word, But it won't happen to me, that's too absurd. I find a lump and wonder what it could be. Is it that thing that begins with the Letter 'C'? It can't be that, I am only 32, but the Dr. confirms my worst fear is true. They try different things and do a lot of tests, but then I am told, I will still lose my breasts. After the mammogram, biopsies and MRI, I begin to wonder, Am I going to die? When people find out, and ask me how I feel? I say I am fine, because it don't yet seem real. Then suddenly, reality slaps me in the face, and I want to run to some other place. I feel like this thing that begins with the Letter 'C', is ripping my dreams right out of me. but, I have to fight for my 10 year old Angel at home, I can not die and leave her all alone. So, to this thing that begins with the Letter 'C', I be damned if you'll get the best of me. ----Helen Diane Gibson  9-6-01	Sign up for our Email Newsletter For Email Marketing you can trust
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