MY LIFE WAS TAKING BY STORM ON FEBRUARY 26TH 2013 WHEN I GOT A CALL FROM MY DOCTOR AT 6 IN THE EVENING WITH NEWS TELLING ME MY TEST RESULTS CAME BACK FROM THE BIOPSY POSITIVE FOR BREAST CANCER I WAS IN TOTAL SHOCK IT WAS SO MUCH GOING ON MY MOTHER WAS ILL SHE HAD UNDERGONE EMERGENCY SURGERY IN SEPTEMBER OF 2012 AND WAS IN A COMA FOR A WEEK THE DOCTORS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT WOULD HER WISHES BE SHE WAS ON LIFE SUPPORT WE DIDN'T GIVE UP HOPE SHE MADE IT THROUGH AFTER SEEING HER WAKE UP AND FIGHT I KNEW GOD WAS ON OUR SIDE TILL THE DAY I GOT DEVASTATING NEWS I WAS POSITIVE FOR BREAST CANCER ALL TYPES OF THOUGHTS RAN THROUGH MY MIND I WANTED TO QUESTION GOD WHY ME BUT I CAN'T QUESTION HIS WORK I HAD 2 LUMPECTOMYS SURGERYS STILL DIDN'T HAVE CLEAR MARGINS AFTER DREDDING GETTING A MESECTOMY I GOT A SECOND OPINION STILL WAS THE SAME SO I TRIED GETTING MY MIND OFF OF IT HEAL FROM THE 2 LUMPECTOMYS I HAD SPEND TIME WITH MY MOM WHILE SHE WAS STRUGGLING TO GET WELL WHILE I DECIDED ON A DATE TO HAVE MY BREAST REMOVED I GOT SOME DISTURBING NEWS APRIL 2013 MY MOM PASSED AWAY THE BREATH WAS TAKING FROM ME I THEN DECIDED TO GO WITH THE SURGERY. I HAVE HAD 4 CHEMO TREATMENTS INSTEAD OF 6 START RADIATION THE 23RD OF DECEMBER I KNOW MY MOM IS LOOKING OVER ME SHE HAS BEEN MY STRENGTH THROUGH THIS I WILL CONTINUE TO FIGHT THIS BATTLE AND PRAY THAT ONE DAY IT WILL BE A CURE.

Michelle Mooney
Milwaukee, WI