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[quote=Anonymous]I had a good friend about a decade ago, she was sixty-four and one day she discovered a lump underneath her armpit.

Her parents had both died young from cancer.
Anyway she may have been afraid.
Or not.

Regardless she tried to hide her lump (which eventually grew to the size of a basketball, I kid you not) until she no longer could not.
She eventually could not even put her arm in any “down” position.
It wasn’t until a social worker saw her & noticed her huge tumor even though my friend tried her best to cover it up w/a quilt.

The social worker called an ambulance and she was taken into E/R.
By the time she was seen - her cancer was already too advanced for any sort of medical treatment. 😔

My friend had had a rough life.
Her husband had beat her and she was a single mom to four boys &gt; three developing mentally disabled.

I strongly suspect that she did not get treated earlier because she likely wanted to die.
She had told me in the hospice that she felt as if she had led a complete life already and was not afraid to go.[/quote]

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