[madubois63]

While in the hospital for the mastectomy, I was sharing a room with a woman that had just been diagnosed with diabetes. A "counselor" came in to talk to her about managing her disease. The curtains were pulled, so she never saw me. My roommate was denying that she was sick and giving the woman a hard time. The frustrated counselor then said, "Marie, it's not like you have cancer!" I pulled the curtain open and with my bald head said, "EXCUSE ME??" That idiot ran out of that room so fast...

After my first bout with bc, I went back to college. I had endured a year of treatments that included chemo, a mastectomy, tram flap reconstruction and radiation. I was still tired but trying to get on with my life. I took the elevator to get to my third floor class one day. A woman gets on and says to me, "I'll take the elevator with the lazy people." As I was the only person on the elevator, I told her she may be the lazy one, but I had cancer. Her mouth dropped and she apologized. She got out on the 2nd floor and ran...