{"id":1577204,"date":"2019-10-07T20:20:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T00:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/?p=1577204"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:35:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:35:34","slug":"breast-cancer-awareness-month-a-commentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/divine.ca\/en\/breast-cancer-awareness-month-a-commentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Awareness Month: A Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.<\/a>\u00a0 Many of us have been touched by breast cancer.\u00a0 We\u2019ve watched family members or friends struggle with the disease or maybe you have been diagnosed with it yourself.\u00a0\u00a0 We want you to know that whether you are a patient, survivor, caregiver or friend, you have support.\u00a0 DIVINE is a magazine for women, mostly by women and we want you to share your hopes, dreams and yes, even struggles with a friendly community.<\/p>\n

In 2012, I returned from a vacation.\u00a0 My sister and I were visiting our mother when she casually told us that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer.\u00a0 That began a seven-year journey of ups and downs.\u00a0 \u00a0After her lumpectomy and 6 weeks of radiation, my mother was declared in remission.\u00a0 In March of 2015, she once again told me that the disease had returned and metastasized to her bones.\u00a0 I\u2019d like to tell you that at that moment that I was brave, but I wasn\u2019t.\u00a0 I burst into tears as my strong, brilliant mother told me not to worry, that she was tough.<\/p>\n

My mother went through unimaginable ups and downs until breast cancer took her life 3 years after her diagnosis.\u00a0 She never lost who she was or her sense of humour even when she found out, in 2017, that my sister had been diagnosed with breast cancer too.\u00a0 When I eulogized her, I said that I like to think that cancer didn\u2019t beat her, but she beat cancer.\u00a0 It never took away who she was as a person.<\/p>\n

When any type of cancer takes over your life, and you are not the one with it, you go on autopilot.\u00a0 You do what needs to get done.\u00a0 Aspects of your life go on hold.\u00a0 You schedule your life around appointments.\u00a0 There will be countless hours spent searching for treatments, side effects, definitions and doctors\u2019 ratings.\u00a0 In short, you become an expert at something that never wanted to know so much about in the first place.<\/p>\n

Throughout the month of October, we will share stories from a patient and a volunteer from Look Good Feel Better<\/a>.\u00a0 We will also showcase some of \u00a0the products that you can buy that will help support breast cancer research.\u00a0 Even though this is officially Breast Cancer Awareness Month, remember, that in the other 11 months of the year, people still need your support.\u00a0 Our goal is to share inspiration all year with the stories that have touched us most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.\u00a0 Many of us have been touched by breast cancer.\u00a0 We\u2019ve watched family members or friends struggle with the disease or maybe you have been…<\/div>\n
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