Donna Rushing:  

Hello All, So much has happened since I last saw many of you, I really don't know how to begin. So I will begin with my journey of breast cancer. If any of you out there have cancer stories, I invite you to share them with me. I have found it is a great comfort to share with someone who has been where you have... Anyway, in January of last year, I all of a sudden started losing weight. Because I was overweight at the time, it wasn't obvious that I had a rather large lump in my right breast. Within a couple of months, though it was. It took me till August of that year to get to a doctor-stupid, I know, but it was so scary(and truth to tell, it still is). I saw a local surgeon, but at the time, neither my husband or I was working, and we had no insurance, so we had no way to pay for surgery when the biopsy returned as "malignant ductal carcinoma", meaning that it had spread to my lymph nodes. Stage 4 cancer, my friends. I applied for disability and for Medicaid, b...Expand for more