Beneath the Cloud: Battling Breast Cancer and Finding Hope

There’s a very real possibility that I’ve never known life without breast cancer hovering somewhere in the background, like a little grey cloud. My first encounter with it came through my grandmother—my mother’s mother—who had battled and beaten breast cancer long before I was born, but lost her left breast in the process. As a child, I spent a lot of time with her, and she wasn’t shy about…