…really scared. I was angry. I was just really angry and I was ready to fight. In my mind, I thought why hold on these things if they are trying to keep me from my kids. Most people opt for the reconstruction before they go into surgery, but I wasn’t a candidate for health reasons. That’s when I lost it.”
“People need to see breast cancer for what it really is.”
“We have scars for a reason,” Paulette says. “They are our stories of survival. Scars let us know that ‘hey, yeah I had cancer’, and I kicked it’s ass.”
Her Scar Story: Woman Walks 1,000 Miles Bare-Chested For Breast Cancer was originally published on blackdoctor.org