breast cancer. up until six years ago, breast cancer was a stranger to me.  well, not necessarily.  i lost an aunt to breast cancer, but she was someone i never really knew because we lived on opposite sides of the globe.  november 2006, however, is when my world changed. that was when my mother received her diagnosis.  her annual mammogram found a lump in her left breast.  a second scan and a biopsy confirmed that she had breast cancer.  thanksgiving was awkward that year.  awkward because there was this foreign thing inside of my mom's body that was trying to kill her.  fortunately, my mother had a plan of attack and three days after christmas in 2006 she said farewell to her left breast.  since that day, she has remained cancer-free, yet each and every day since then has … [Read more...]