What a story!
The Toronto Star had this dramatic, compelling cover story today.
The article starts like this:
A mother’s tale
Michelle Hobor was too busy nursing baby Noelle and chasing toddler Nate to notice the hardness in her breast.
The Star ‘s special Breast Cancer section last Sept. 28 featured a piece by 32-year-old Michelle Hobor.
The wife of Durham Region police officer Terry, mother of Nate, then 2, and Noelle, 14 months, told how she’d been too busy nursing Noelle to notice the hardness in her breast, diagnosed in November 2005 as cancer.
Then came mastectomy and chemo.
Having learned she was the carrier of the BRCA1 gene for familial breast cancer, she was scheduled for her second mastectomy the following month, and expected to undergo a hysterectomy and double breast reconstruction by the end of the year.
After her article was published (she and baby Noelle appeared on the cover), Michelle and editor Adam Gutteridge continued to correspond until she died on Sunday, Jan. 28.
You can read the full story here.
What a story, and what a picture!
