What life is like when you have breast cancer—and kids BreastCancerAwarenessMonth
with him for months in advance. This year’s will be “Beat Bugs,” from Netflix’s animated series, and Michelle has every intention of being there to host.
“I always say, ‘No matter how bad you have it, somebody else has it worse,’” says Susan, who hails from tiny Port de Grave, Nfld. “I can always find a silver lining.”, the online bakery she runs out of her home while she’s off work and undergoing treatment for a stage two tumour. Despite her chemo sessions—which drain her of energy, appetite and, sometimes, the ability to get out of bed—Susan tries to be up and baking snickerdoodles and banana bread blondies by 6 a.m.
Protecting her daughters, Sophia and Elizabeth, who were five and eight when she was diagnosed, factors prominently in Susan’s approach to cancer, which started as a lump she noticed one morning last December while soaping up in the shower. An ultrasound was arranged and then a biopsy. She spent the lead-up to Christmas awaiting her results.
With her then eight-year-old, Elizabeth, Susan had a more nuanced discussion. “I was able to use the word ‘cancer,’ because they learn about Terry Fox at school. She was quite upset because, of course, Terry Fox died in the end. I explained to her that this is a totally different situation.”
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