Amanda Walsh This January marked two years since I began breast cancer treatment. I vividly remember that cold, dark morning in early January 2022, when my husband and I drove to the hospital for my first surgery. I had spent the night before preparing as best as I could. Of course, it was impossible to […]
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Amanda Walsh I was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2021. I was young, and my family was still reeling from two loved ones’ own breast cancer diagnoses earlier that same year. When I first found my lump, I thought, there’s no way I have cancer. Not right now. The universe wouldn’t allow that, right?
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by Dawn Anderson In 1993, a 37-year-old Milwaukee native, Sherry Kohlenberg, spoke at the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s rally in Washington DC. “This year 46,000 women will die of breast cancer,” she says. “I will probably be among these statistics. I will leave behind my husband and partner of 18 years, a motherless child, a
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by Dawn Anderson “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” – William E. Vaughan This made me laugh out loud! It’s definitely a truth this time of year (IF we can still stay awake until midnight). 365 days is
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by Linda Hansen I found the lump that was Stage IV metastatic breast cancer just five weeks after a “clean” mammogram. And I was mad. How could metastatic breast cancer be missed on a mammogram? I spent that first year going through surgeries, chemotherapy and radiation, but in the back of my mind, the question
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by Dawn Anderson For most of our almost 30-year existence, the WBCC has maintained that pink ribbons and “hope” are not enough to stop women from dying from breast cancer. We’ve focused on taking action – “STANDING UP AND SPEAKING OUT” – to make sure there is appropriate research funding allocated, to ensure all women
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by Dawn Anderson Happy Spring in Wisconsin! Little sleepy heads like Snow Drops, Hepatica, Crocus, and Pasque Flowers are waking up and stretching towards the warmth of May. These earliest harbingers of the end of winter are reminders that we always come through it. They give me hope, even on the spring days that taunt
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by Dawn Anderson You know you’ve done it. We’ve all done it. We toast a new year, and we think, “It’s a blank page. I should start something new! Or finish the book I started. Or organize all my spices alphabetically and old photos by calendar year. Maybe run a marathon.” (Not me. I’ve never
The WBCC is pleased to announce this year’s Volunteer of the Year: Kelly Gramblicka! Kelly has been an active part of our organization for eight years and has consistently participated in the Rare Chair Affair. She names her personal growth and connections to other survivors as the key motivators for her annual participation. To Kelly,
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