Survivor Story: Marie Ritz
The irony of discovering my own cancer diagnosis was shocking to say the least. Spending the past seven years of my life working with cancer patients—both clinically as a psychotherapist and administratively as the clinical director of a cancer support center—has marked this journey an unbelievable whim of fate. When you are 33 and a mother of a 2 1/2 year old, cancer is just not something you think is going to happen to you, even when you see it at work all the time. I knew enough to know that cancer can affect anyone, at any time, and that no one, no matter how old one is, expects to get that “sorry, it is cancer” phone call. But, as a young mother, you have this deeper purpose in life that you believe will somehow protect you from a disease that can rob your children of their mother. More…
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