"Spurred by her mother's diagnosis, she had her first mammogram a couple days earlier, and it had turned up a suspicious spot. Now she needed a second, diagnostic mammogram, and likely a biopsy. She found herself walking a surreal sort of tightrope, caught between relief that her mother's treatment was over and fear that she might soon be starting her own."
"I went to the radiation center that morning, celebrated my mom having her last radiation treatment, had breakfast with everyone, she recalls. And then quietly went back to the medical campus, to the building across the street, to have my next set of scans and imagery done. Two weeks later, on 9 December 2022, Freed learned she had an early form of breast cancer called ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS)."
Genna Freed found a suspicious spot on a first mammogram shortly after her mother, Julie Newman, received a breast cancer diagnosis, prompting diagnostic imaging and biopsy. Freed celebrated her mother’s final radiation treatment while quietly undergoing scans and uncertainty about her own health. Two weeks later Freed was diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) and underwent a double mastectomy and recovery. Newman shifted between patient and caregiver roles, assisting Freed’s family and organizing support while later facing a second lumpectomy herself. The family experienced relentless role-switching, continuous caregiving demands, and profound emotional upheaval from consecutive diagnoses.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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