Posted on 07/15/2009 11:05:10 AM PDT by GonzoII
Janet Gail was used to looking at mammograms and finding bad news. As a hospital technician in Pennsylvania, that was her job. But she was unprepared for what she found in her own mammogram when she did a routine screening at age 42.
"I immediately recognized a suspicious area on the films," Gail -- who asked that her real name not be used because her children don't know her history -- says, "We returned to the X-ray room to take more specialized views, which only confirmed my suspicions. I knew at that moment that my life was forever changed. I knew I was a breast-cancer patient."
Gail was changed. She knew what breast-cancer patients suffer -- the cancer can go to your lungs and makes you suffocate. It can get in your bones and make them so brittle that you can break a hip turning in bed. Then there's the debilitating treatments she knew lay ahead, the surgery that, victims say, strikes at their very identity as women. If you survive the disease, you worry constantly about relapse.
Surgeons helped. Gail realized that radical mastectomy was her only choice. "My emotions were raw and tender," she says. "I was so angry! Angry at God, angry at my new body, angry at the world. I sought counseling and tried desperately to understand why God would put me in this situation."
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Ping.
When was this written? 1970? That's about when the original Halstead radical mastectomy was abandoned. About 1992, the modified radical mastectomy was replaced by lumpectomy.
If there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, boy obamacare is just the ticket. It’ll pay for your abortio and to save costs, like in Britian, deny you drugs to treat the cancer. Aren’t those authoritarian marxists humane?
If there is a link between abortion and breast cancer, boy obamacare is just the ticket. It’ll pay for your abortio and to save costs, like in Britian, deny you drugs to treat the cancer. Aren’t those authoritarian marxists humane?
What joy lies on the horizon after 0's health care reform?
It’s a win-win for them... eugenics.
The Susan Koman foundation was created for the singular purpose of suppressing this truth.
This would be supported by the rise of breast cancer cases where socialized medicine is the soup de-jour. I think Englands is up at least 80 percent over the last couple decades!
God's fault.
"But then she remembered one she'd read about before, one that she was trying hard not to think about. Gail had an abortion when she was 18."
Looks like George Bush might know how God must be feeling about this one...
Oh there IS a link alright, and it's even stronger than the miscarriage-breast cancer link. However, the baby-killers have done an outstanding job suppressing the information!
There are plenty of women who have abortions and don’t get breast cancer, and plenty of women who get breast cancer and never had an abortion.
There are infertile women who are more likely to lose a pregnancy when they do conceive - and thus more likely to have breast cancer later?
Is God out to get them three times - infertility, pregnancy loss, breast cancer?
God may help us cope with what life deals us, to haul what grace and meaning and redemption can be gotten from loss and suffering - but I don’t believe the accidents of life have much meaning, and sometimes the accidents carry us away from God.
Can you blame them? Babies taste good, you know.
This was originally published in Crisis magazine, ca. 2000 or 2002, I would guess. I recall reading and copying it at the time.
Inside Catholic is the online survivor of Crisis magazine. They frequently post old articles from Crisis without always identifying them as such. These are often very good articles, some of the best published in Crisis. But they need to do a better job of identifying them as republished.
That's one of the things I've noticed that they do.
From the end of the article:
"Tom Hoopes is the executive editor of the National Catholic Register and editorial director of Faith & Family. This article originally appeared in the September 2002 issue of Crisis Magazine."
Depends on the agressiveness of the cancer and existing size of tumor - I know we learned for the mrs. All well now - thankya again Lord.
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