Connie Marse On Cancer Diagnosis: “Felt Like I Was Unwillingly Thrown Onto A Roller Coaster”

By Pam Folse

Mrs. Marse you have breast cancer. Wow! For the first time in my life, the word ‘cancer’ and my name were being spoken in the same sentence. I wanted no part of the ‘breast cancer club’. I had just been unwillingly thrown onto a roller coaster and I wanted off. I felt as though I had been punched in the stomach and the air had been sucked out of me. All the terms and options for treatment being hurled at me seemed surreal.

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