After Kathy Giusti was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, she became a cancer expert and patient advocate. Now facing breast cancer, she shares her best lessons for coping.
who shepherds patients through the system to find their cures. So when a small spot on one of my regular screenings turned out to be early stage breast cancer, I said to myself: I’ve got this, it’s what I do. No problem.
Then in 2014, eight years after giving me the life-saving gift of a stem cell transplant, Karen was diagnosed with breast cancer. Stage III. It was my turn to pay her back. I reached out to family, to friends. My sister and I spoke endlessly about the toll of her ongoing treatment, from shortness of breath to the neuropathy that feels like shooting needles in her feet; having endured years of treatment issues myself for myeloma, I didn’t know how many more I could bear, let alone more scans, more false positives, more biopsies. More restless nights and honest entries in my journal.
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