After the news she’d just received, all she could do was sit and clutch the phone in her hand.
She had had a mammogram the day before and was now being told she needed to see a surgeon. Kim Snodgrass, geometry teacher, couldn’t believe the phone call she had just received. She was getting called back in for a surgery consultation.
“How is this even possible,” she asked herself thinking to the year before, when she had a perfect mammogram.
The only thing running through her head was, “you’ve got to be kidding me.”
Snodgrass went to her consultation and set a date to get the thing that was threatening her life removed.
The first thing she did after waking from surgery was breath a huge sigh of relief. She could live and not worry about that which might have killed her. She could walk through life again with the sparkle in her eye, that bounce in her walk, and be who she was. She could breath again.
Snodgrass says that her breast cancer was “a cake walk” compared to the other things she’s been through.
She doesn’t know the unknown but she knows she’s going to fight to stay alive.
Everyone can help in the fight for breast cancer by donating to Think Pink. This year, the student body raised $7,000, partly by selling T-Shirts and Silly Bandz. All of that is going to help finance searching for a cure.
“I think [Think Pink] is great,” Snodgrass said. “I just wish we could have it for all types of cancer.”
Snodgrass had to give up her job for about two months to get back on her feet.
“If I could give any advice to women, it is to get an annual mammogram,” Snodgrass said. “It’s really worth your life. But to people that have it, take care of it as soon as possible, do whatever it takes because it isn’t a joke.”