Breast Cancer Survivor Finds Happiness Modeling Bras
Nancy Armstrong, co-chair of Bras with a Cause, wants people to know breast cancer survivors may not have hair, but "we still see beauty in ourselves."
It can be terrifying when a woman finds out she has breast cancer. For Nancy Armstrong, the diagnosis took some time to sink in. Not because she was in shock—she was just too busy. Armstrong was 37 when she was learned she had stage 2 breast cancer in 2008. She had been divorced less than a month and was in the process of reimagining her life, which included moving to Royal Oak and caring for her two children, ages 18 and 5, and a new grandchild. “My son just had just graduated and had a baby. He and the baby, and the baby’s mother, were all living with me when I found out I had breast cancer,” she said. “I would come home from chemo, and the baby would be crying. I would be so tired, but what are you going to do? My life was a state of …
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