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Weekly Contest #303
It was eleven years ago that I last heard Mom’s voice. She was dying from cancer, and I knew then that someday I would deal with it also.In May 2006, it was time for another mammogram. I dreaded those blasted things. I have heard many women say that they don’t hurt at all. That was not true in my case, but I didn't have a choice. I had felt a lump in my right breast a few weeks before the mammogram but decided not to tell the doctor. I wanted to see if the test would actually show the lump. I knew when the doctor scheduled an ultrasound that...
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