One day she even wore a blond wig to her sons' school for fun. Her cancer therapy included spending a lot of time at school with her boys. The day after her third chemotherapy treatment, she accompanied them on a field trip to Beef and Boards, an Indianapolis dinner theater. Many women with extensive treatments have constant flu-like symptoms or constant fatigue because the body's immune system is down. For Perrone and her family, breast cancer never stopped them from living.
Life goes on.
You still have to clean your room and have good manners. Perrone never had trouble discussing breast cancer with her sons. Some might dub it a woman's issue, but for Perrone, it was a family issue. I'm involved in La Leche league, so from the time they were born they've known about women. Even before the age of 40, the recommended age for mammograms, Mehring started going because she had two college roommates who developed breast cancer.