Imagine you鈥檝e got breasts. It shouldn鈥檛 be too hard to imagine, because most every human being has鈥� em! And that means that most of us are candidates for breast cancer.
This hour, we hear very intimate conversations with two women who go through the process of getting a double mastectomy - the removal of all the breast tissue. One decides to get reconstruction, and one does not.
I talked to them before the surgery, right after, and then almost a year later. I wanted to find out what it was like dealing with the prospect of a cancer diagnosis - or an actual one - and what it was like losing a part of their body.
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GUESTS:
- is a Willimantic-based textile artist
- is the director of public programs at in Hartford, and a long-time freelance writer
Catie Talarski contributed to this show.
