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Editor's note: This story originally was published on July 13, 2008.

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Eliza Williams of Waterville, ME
Aug 14, 2008 9:55 AM
Must respond now. After deliberately ignoring ever reading this series/article...I had a 'positive' mammo two months ago!

Ah, well...did some backwards thinking then, but excused it because I felt I didn't want to jinx myself by reading someone else's experience.

Until it became mine.

What I discovered was that everything I did post 'maybe' I did with new meaning. Everyone I saw, I saw with more love and caring than I ever knew possible. When I looked at my youngest grandaughter, just two, it was with thoughts that I might not get to see her mature into the lovely young lady my eldest now is. I was truly chastened by this life experience. I cried more tears of the potential missing of others in my life than for myself.

Fast forward through those two months of questions...more mammo's, scans, ultrasounds (all with such fine and caring folks doing them) to the ultimate biopsy...and then the absolute freedom of not being sentenced to death, perhaps: my results were negative.

I am free...at least for now! And so blessed and SO full of love for those who've given me such pleasure just by being in my life.

I am free. It's a wonderful feeling.

And I wish this result could be everyone's, not just mine.report abuse

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