Annette Larkins

pills. She has never been hospitalized except for labor and delivery. She reveals having a similar

Breast cancer can be a very scary experience, not just for the patient, but also for the patient’s family. While patients go through the process of being diagnosed with breast cancer and the treatment that goes with it there are many highs and lows. The themes of uncertainty, family, and isolation can be seen throughout Audre Lorde’s journal, and even though the poems are small you can still see the same themes throughout most of them.

Individuals look at a home has a place of shelter and a place of refuge after a long day. In Marilyn Dumont case, her home is more than just a home. It’s a sense of serenity. The poem is about a mother who is faced with a huge loss of her child. The loss that happens in the poem are some that individuals in that situation would not want to face alone. Coping with such a tragedy in her case would be through her child carrying in his or her life through the land that the speaker holds so close to her. In the poem “Not just a Platform for my Dance”, Marilyn Dumont uses landscape and nature as a coping method to help find serenity.

M. H. states that she is generally in good overall health. No cardiac, respiratory, endocrine, vascular, musculoskeletal, urinary, hematologic, neurologic, genitourinary, or gastrointestinal problems.

that influenced her life such as having Graves’ Disease and other health issues, but not having health

Here it is seen that McClung is developing and proceeding in her fight to provide equality among the sexes, by allowing girls to participate in sporting games. She was providing her female students with the privileges they rightfully deserve. Furthermore, she again went against the norms of a woman in the nineteenth century by simply being a teacher. All of which making Nellie McClung an example of a strong, feminist activist for other women of her era to follow She successfully taught at Hazel school for seven years. It was also at Hazel school that Nellie met the woman who would make the largest impact on her life, Annie McClung.

Eternal youth can seem close to perfect, but eventually everyone has to grow up and be mature. For example, In the Glass Castle Jeannette walls had to grow up young, and quickly realized the world does not wait for you.

spread. But with fame came even heavier tasks as she caught the attention of the

Currently, she is concerned she might be pregnant (Confederation College, 2018). She is diagnosed with “alcohol dependence; psychosis and depression” (Confederation College, 2018). Primary

I believe that she is able to updates drugs. It is probably just a matter of reminding her once a

Gigi notices her mother is starting to get weaker and less able to walk and run like she used to. This worries Gigi but her mom says she is okay so Gigi just thinks its cause she is getting old and doesn’t think much of it. A month loater Gigi’s mother gets diagnosed with pancreatic cancer which is really imparing her mother from helping figt off the bullies. But she is still giving Gigi her words of supportand

Bmo reported that she is not taking any medication for any mental illness she has.

Attention Getter: What do Sheryl Crow, Judy Blume, Suzanne Somers, Wanda Sykes and my Mother have in common? They are all breast cancer survivors.

As I continued with the interview, I started to ask my mother more in-depth questions regarding the physical and cognitive changes she has experienced throughout adulthood. While she has also experienced many signs of primary aging (i.e. white hairs, wrinkly skin, and weight gain), cancer continues to be one of her most salient physical change in adulthood. My mother was diagnosed with stage three breast cancer when she was forty-one. She later had her left breast completely removed and underwent chemotherapy and took ton of medications. As she started to discuss this experience, I started to analyze Baltes’ life span theory where development is a life-long process that involves maintaining and finding stability as well as adapting to gains

breast cancer from twenty five to thirty percent and women age forty the data states a