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Watercolour painting of fabulous model Laetitia De Guiche breast cancer patient survivor –
Laetitia’s story in her own words
Pink October
Needed a picture which would catch the eye at times when images act more than words, a picture so that you might read this, a picture both attractive and bare (my kingdom for some hair), but a picture without boobs.
There’s always a “but”
Pink October
For me, it was September last year.
A year ago.
I went to my appointment, the routine mammogram. There was nothing. I left with a sense of accomplishment. Six months later, by a lucky coincidence, my breast ended up under an ultrasound machine. A tumour. A biopsy. More mammograms. More tumours. One breast fewer.
Long and gruelling treatments followed.
A year of life if everything goes well.
I heard lots of boob stories since then. There are as many different stories as there are woman and these testimonies are invaluable to me, especially as those women are still alive!
Pink October
Im not a fan of the pink chosen for ribbons, but its a yearly musket blast so we dont fall asleep. Check your tits because you love them, because other people love them. Research continues, and I will never thank ‘Oncopole.’ and their restlessness enough so I could live. I speak to my daughter, to my sons, to my pupils who are growing up, to you too of course, to you too.
Show your boobs! Play with them! Have them fiddled with!
A lot of protests will take place all month (last month, it was blood cancer month by the way)
I would like to highlight Mylene’s action, who runs against cancer and who suggests this link to help research https://www.alvarum.com/marieheleneescarrat… and I invite you to discover Barbara, an artist who, in the last few months, has put scars at the forefront of her work
