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From: darla@...

Date: Sun, March 12, 2006 4:58 am

To: breastcancer2

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Dear Ruth:

I understand how you feel....let me say that we are not defined by our

breasts. It is the soul, the spirit of who you are that makes you. The

diagnosis is in the forefront yes, however, put it into perspective...you

are a beautiful human being you are a woman, you have given life and you

are life. A dignosis of breast cancer may be a defining moment in your

life. The medical community see's the value of your life...they must focus

on the breast and cancer that invades it. By doing so they don't focus on

the idea of it defining you!

here is a poem I wrote while recovering from my breast cancer about a

special place for me it was the place I retreated to inside myself:

My Secret Garden

A very special place indeed!

There is a place I go to a place I can

share my fears, It is there I find

happiness and have shed some tears. This

place is a comfort and it holds me safe

within its arms. In this place I run to,

there, for me, is no harm.

It's in my secret garden that I love who I

am, because it's there that I can be myself

and there I feel free of demands. I know

that life still awaits me once I leave this

garden fair. But it's kept safe within my

heart until I visit there again.

Each time that I go there I feel more and

more at home. It's in this secret garden

that I never feel alone. I feel alive and

invigorated in this garden's lair. There is

peace and tranquility that I also feel when

there.

So if you cannot find me and wonder

where she can be. . .Look deep into the secret

garden for its there you shall find me.

Copyright ©2006 Darla G. Hensley

on poetry.com

> I am now a 60 year old woman with invasive carsinoma of the right

> breast. Where did the rest of me go and will I ever get me back? I

hope so. I know it won't be the same me, but I must be hiding behind

that diagnosis somewhere. Reading the reports makes me feel like I am

only a breast, to the medical community, one that needs to be removed.

> I feel so lost right now.

> Ruth

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