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My name’s Anne Marcott
and I’ve been here in Wyoming for
twelve and a half years. Moved here in a blizzard
and it’s kind of been a whirl-wind blizzard kind of life ever since.
It was the last place we moved I said to my husband this is it
We are moving here. No more, I’ve moved a lot
So, consequently I’ve had a lot of jobs, my resume has over forty jobs.
I have two children.
I am an original upstate New Yorker.
I am not afraid to try almost anything hence; I can do a lot of things. I’m the Jill of many
trades
I have two undergraduate degrees and never
put them to work professionally,
except when I was a travel agent
or work for the airlines.
Love to travel. Love to travel internationally
My passport is not
quite as stamped as I would like it to be, bur we're working on that.
Right now, I work part-time as a substitute teacher and
because I like to be with elementary kids and
that allows me two days a week for my hiking and skiing group,
which I started
twelve years ago and we all meet at my house
and that's very important to me
to be able to keep that lifestyle up
to be outdoors, and to be active.
I had a mammogram done in January of 2009
came back fine
Went jogging on the greenbelt here, well I was told I couldn't jog because of my knees so
I can do everything else in life, but jog. So, I went out on the greenbelt and i saw a woman who is
walking and jogging
and walking and jogging
and I thought well that might be the way to break into it. I'm gonna walk and jog, walk and jog.
So I did it, I walked and jogged.
I'm gonna get back into running, this is great
But afterwards, I had this really bizarre sensation in my armpits.
I went to the doctor - after a week, it didn't go away.
I said they just feel weird than I said
"I did jog with without support, I didn't have support bra on. It was a spontaneous thing.
Maybe I pulled some muscles, he thought the same thing. He said have support, don't do anything upper body
for two weeks, if it doesn't go away, go for a mammogram.
Didn't go away.
Went for the mammogram.
Boom, there it was.
So,
going through it all
when i finally
found out, they stage it a zero from the biopsy.
By the time I had surgery, which was a bi-lateral mastectomy for stage zero cancer, thats how early they caught it.
Even though it was wide spread, it was ductile carcinoma in side two DCIS.
Because it was still in the
milk ducts
it was stage zero, but six weeks later, he said I had to get it out.
He said we have to surgery within six weeks. It is an aggressive cancer
it had already gone to stage one and still haven’t left the milk ducts, but the size of it was
everywhere
in the ***.
Had to get it out and when they looked at the pathology of it,
I had done everything right. I eat well, exercise, and had nursed
my two children. I have no history of breast cancer in my family. Where did this come from?
So my concern was for my daughter.
And how do I, you know I am telling my daughter I have this and what’s going
through her head, you know.
I had to reassure here that I am not going to die
and in my heart I’m hoping that I’m not going to die.
and then
asking the doctor is my daughter going to get this without having the
BRCA gene test done because that cause that was thousands of dollars.
There's no reason i should have this anyway
So we didn’t do the gene test and they
did a pathology and worked their numbers
and they told me that I could tell my daughter that no,
she shouldn’t get it from me.
My sons away, he's a guy,
and I'm ok with that. Mom, how are you doing? He check in on me, you know
and I know he worries about me because he dedicated a song to me. He’s a musician
and it wasn’t one of his songs but it’s called "Soul Shine"
and I don't remember the author
uh... artist. End of my playlist.
So it's at the end of the alphabet. But it's called "Soul Shine" and it's kind of a bluesy song.
You gotta let your soul shine.
Basically is how it goes.
It's better than moonshine, better than sunshine. Gotta let your soul shine.
And I kind of took that to heart.