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The Truth About Cancer
mastectomy and radiation. And I needed to hurry. There was a sense of
urgency. So my sister was with me and my boyfriend at the time was
with me. So I went ahead with the mastectomy and I had remembered
what my grandmother looked like when she was doing chemotherapy
and she lost a lot of weight. And I was terrified. And I just didn’t want to
go through what she went through, losing all that weight and dying
eventually.
Ty: It sounds like they just threw almost everything including the
kitchen sink at you as far as recommended treatments.
Shannon Knight: They did. And I was in a hospital where I saw
patients in the waiting room and they were missing hair, they were
wearing scarves. They were—they looked like they were from a
concentration camp. It was terrifying.
Ty: You mentioned that they gave you, I think, a bottle of water
with pink on it. When—was it during breast cancer awareness
month, was it during October
Shannon Knight: Yes. It was absolutely during October, Breast
Cancer Awareness Month and they gave me—everything was pink. The
pamphlets were pink. The wig book was pink. So I could start looking
wigs ahead of time preparing me to lose my hair, even the scarves if I
didn’t want wigs. It was all these information packets. They gave me a
bag with a bunch of stuff in it, support groups pamphlets, everything. So
when I got through with the mastectomy that’s when they were able to
tell me by taking the lymph nodes out that it had gotten into my lymph
nodes it was stage III. So they needed to do everything and they
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