In the kindest voice since he had said I do 34 years ago, he answered, No, not at all. We left the doctor s plaza and embraced right on the street. Probably thought we were two old geezers gone bonkers. We didn t care. I know it s not the end of the roller-coaster ride.
Breast cancer is never past tense.
Follow-up exam every three months, mammograms every six months, five years of tamoxifen. But I feel terrific. In three weeks I m joining 12,000 others in the local breast-cancer research fund raiser, the Race for the Cure. Sharon Sorenson, author of 17 books, lives with her husband on a self-created, nationally certified Backyard Wildlife Refuge in rural southern Indiana, where she is completing a book on her experiences with breast cancer. All rights reserved.