Brea Nelson

Surviving breast cancer, Brea Nelson, 10.4.12
Laying in bed, I kept thinking, “It can’t be. It just can’t be.” After all, I had been down the cancer path before. I had heard the words, “You have cancer,” in 2002 after my oldest child was born. I hadn’t been losing the baby weight so went to the doctor for a physical. They found a cancerous mass on my thyroid. I had my thyroid removed and that was that. No more cancer. So the thought that what I was feeling in my breast was actually cancer was pretty far from my mind. I mean, I was 34. Who on Earth gets breast cancer at 34? That’s something for later generations, I thought. I was wrong. …Read more