About Sherry
When my girlfriend Sherry contracted breast cancer at age 29,
I had just gotten pregnant.
She called me and told me, and when I asked what the doctor said about treatment, she said, “he sighed and told me that it was like closing the barn door after the horse had gotten out.”
The ‘horse had gotten out’ .. what did that mean?
Eight months later, as I went into labor, Sherry lapsed into a coma. My daughter was 4 days old when I brought her
to Sherry’s funeral.
She had just turned 30.
Since that time, I have had at least 6 more close girlfriends get and survive breast cancer. Medicines and protocols have changed a lot in those years. While survival is becoming more common, the process is still a difficult one, physically, mentally, and emotionally.
We all strive to be there for our friends and family and to say the right thing. But that’s not always easy.