“You have breast cancer.” One in eight women in the U.S. will hear those four words at some time in their lives. In January 2012, I was one of them. I’d had a clean mammogram in June 2011, but discovered a lump as I turned over in bed one November night. A sonogram and biopsy later, I was diagnosed with Grade 2 invasive breast cancer. I had a mastectomy of my right breast in February 2012, followed by chemotherapy from March to June 2010. I went through 6 rounds of chemo, comprised of a combination of Taxotere and Cytoxan. I lost my hair and my appetite, I was exhausted all the time, and I was too ill to work. Those are the facts, but they don’t begin to describe the emotional journey of my diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. I coped with my diagnosis, like so many other women, through the support of family and friends, by taking the experience one day at a time. I also made quilts. Why quilts? Throughout the breast cancer experience, quilting was one of the few act . CLICK HERE TO START DOWNLOAD
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