Cathy Dunphy:  

After high school I went to Northeastern and got my BS in Electrical Engineering. I lived in San Francisco for a while, but, believe it or not, I missed the weather and the people on the East Coast. Back here now living in Cambridge with 2 obese cats that I got at the MPCA. I work for a hospital in Boston doing computer stuff. I have been dabbling in hang gliding and parasailing and hope to do more of it this spring. BIG TIME mid-life crisis activities! How did we all get so old!?!?!?!?! LISTEN TO THIS! How lucky am I? I as still pinching my self to remember that YES - this did happen to me. I was at Mother's wake and a good friend of the famly who's VERY cool mother died a year before. This daughter had a buzz cut (her hair had never been cut ) and was battling breast cancer and my first thought was "that is what is will hapen to me". I had never had a mammogram even though they practically drag you out of your house to get one. Just never did. I was probably too scared of what they might find. Now those of you that knew me I don't THINK thought of my as some new age hippy with crystals and auras and stuff like that. I was really just biding my time until HS was over. SO - on May 10, 2007 I was walking to Whole FOODs to get lunch, I felt a piercing pain in my left breast that just wouldn't go away. ...Expand for more