Sunday, March 11, 2007
Survivors: Told their time was up, they're refusing to lie down - Seattle Times
She was just 28, living on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, when she first felt the lump in her breast.
Told she was too young to get cancer, it was five months before she had the biopsy that confirmed it. She was pregnant with two small boys at home and had to drive three hours to Great Falls for a mastectomy. She made the heartbreaking decision to abort her baby.
For eight months she was on chemotherapy, continuing her job teaching second grade and caring for her children. Five years later the cancer was gone. She was cured.
Nine years ago, she had a bad pain in her chest that wouldn't go away. Tests showed her cancer was back and had metastasized to her lungs. She came to Seattle for tests, and her doctor told her she would live 18 months to two years. Today, Kristin Johnson has been at Stage 4 cancer, the most serious kind, for 10 years. ...
She was just 28, living on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation in Montana, when she first felt the lump in her breast.
Told she was too young to get cancer, it was five months before she had the biopsy that confirmed it. She was pregnant with two small boys at home and had to drive three hours to Great Falls for a mastectomy. She made the heartbreaking decision to abort her baby.
For eight months she was on chemotherapy, continuing her job teaching second grade and caring for her children. Five years later the cancer was gone. She was cured.
Nine years ago, she had a bad pain in her chest that wouldn't go away. Tests showed her cancer was back and had metastasized to her lungs. She came to Seattle for tests, and her doctor told her she would live 18 months to two years. Today, Kristin Johnson has been at Stage 4 cancer, the most serious kind, for 10 years. ...
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