 | | Bridges: A Newsletter for Survivors | | | Bridges, Memorial Sloan Kettering’s newsletter for survivors, offers a forum where patients and their families can share stories of inspiration and hope, and of the challenges that can accompany a cancer journey. | | | | | |
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 | | | | On Turning the Page | | | I was living in Boston, working full‑time as a professional wood‑carver, when I had my first mastectomy at the age of 38 and my second almost a year later. Each time, I awoke from surgery with a partially filled tissue expander where my breast had been, so I never experienced having a totally flat chest. | |
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 | | | | Don’t Stop Believing | | | It was the last day of July in 2011 when my wife, Susan, asked what that black spot was on my back as she climbed the stairs out of our swimming pool right behind me. She tried to brush it off, thinking it was a piece of mulch from the flower beds nearby, but it was imbedded in my skin. | |
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| | Want To Find Bridges Online? | | | We have over ten years of the quarterly Bridges issues available online. Go to the Bridges homepage for more information and to access the past issues. | | | | | |
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