BDE

I get my mammograms around my birthday (Sept 18) every year, so in October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I always know that I'm doing well.

That wasn't the case in 1997 - it was an awful October. I'd had a mastectomy and was going through chemotherapy. My oldest girls turned 14 and my son was doing his best to cheer me up and get along with his siblings. My youngest, Claire, was only 2 at the time. She kicked me by accident in bed one night and I started crying because her foot hit me in the chest. She still thinks she caused the cancer. I keep telling her it had nothing to do with her.

Today, at work I took the photo of the Genentech Herceptin campaign that appeared on the new shuttle buses for my Photojojo challenge. Later, when I got home from work, Claire presented me with the brownie that reads: Congrats Mom - 100% Cancer Free.

Today was a really good day.
xo