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10 Year Old Diagnosed With Breast Cancer
Doesn’t that subject line just breaks your heart? Even if you are not a mother, you still feel the punch. Your little baby is diagnosed with breast cancer - how do you deal? What is a mother to do/feel - when the doctors present you with his horrible news? So is the case of this mother, and beautiful 10 year old baby, Hannah Powell-Auslam. In March, she complained to her mother about an itchy breast. And when her mother checked, she found a lump and immediately called the doctor.
Now, what got me as I listened to the story on the news (in addition to the disbelief that this child is going through this) is that while Hannah had surgery to remove part of the mass, they told her mother that it was not breast cancer. Why? “Because breast cancer does not happen to children,” they said.
I don’t think these doctors are alone in that belief. I think if we took a poll, majority of us would have thought the same thing. Lesson learned!
It took a series of tests and results that caught the doctors off guard: it turns out that Hannah had Stage IIA Invasive Ductal Carcinoma - supposedly, an adult form of breast cancer. This meant that the tumor would have to be removed, and as a result, Hannah had a mastectomy earlier this year. I can’t help but cry as I write this because my heart goes out to both Hannah and her mom. Equally.
Why? Why? Why? Urrggh!
It’s hard enough for kids to be kids, but to have health related issues on top of being a kid is unjust. Children should never be sick. Children should not have health issues. They are far too innocent to understand and deal. That said, I do believe that when kids are sick, it truly humbles your heart as an adult. They live with it with so much grace, and you never hear them complain.
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