I never thought sixty-four pages could cause tears to roll down my cheeks and twist my heart into the most intricate knot that could only be undone by cutting it in half. “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.” showed me it can happen.
My mother’s friend has stage four breast cancer. I can recall coming home one day to my mother. I slid my bag off of my shoulders and bounced into the kitchen.
“Hi, Mom.” My pace decreases. Her palms were pressed to her forehead and her fingers intertwined with the thin, mocha hair at her scalp. “...What’s wrong..?”
Her voice is shakey. Exhaling, she is able to mutter, “...You know my friend Erin?” Reluctantly, I nod. Oh no. What happened?! Just...did she...die? She was fun….She was kind. She shouldn't have! She doesn’t deserve that!!
“...S-She has breast cancer...you know what that is, right?”
I feel my heart burn. Silence except for a sniffle
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I was paler and more bony and my energy dripped down the drain. When we searched up recipes together, I saw “How to encourage weight gain for underweight teens” as one of the tabs. I felt a rush of guilt and satisfaction in that moment. I was considered “underweight” to her. I was the lowest “healthy weight” for my height, 81 pounds, but after a while, it got lower. My parents had mentioned to me the day before Father’s day that they thought I was getting thin. Too thin.
I was already mentally sick. Then I got a virus. Everything flushed out of me, as I was sick with diarrhea. Curled up on the couch for over a week, stomach lurching, appetite gone. No calories were retained. Miserable. All I could eat was oatmeal, bananas, toast, and peanut butter. Every meal was oatmeal. Smoothies for snacks. But I never was hungry. I hated food a little bit. I genuinly like fruits and veggies, but I couldn’t have that because it would make the dihareha worse. 73 pounds. 0.3% for my bmi.. I was 5 foot and 2 ¼ inches. I thought I looked normal. I was so
This book was brilliant. There were moments that made me laugh, moments that made me tremble in my chair, moments that made me cry, moments that melted my heart, and moments that made me want to rip my hair out at the roots. This book has it all, and it delivers it through a cold but much needed message.
Marisa Meltzer from “The Last Feminist Taboo” describes her journey in life with family members giving excessive pressure towards Melter from losing weight and created opposite effects on her health. Which was not the right decisions she has made to get revenge back to her parents in return. When people give negative feedbacks there are always choices people can make to either accept or reject the ideas of another person’s statements. The positive decisions such as accepting the feedbacks from others to resolve the issue or refuse to believe in her parent’s criticism that she is overweight and prove it to them by doing something healthy in her lifestyle. She states her essay in a way of gaining weight was
I was ten years of age the first time I deemed that I needed to lose weight. My family and I (Mom, Dad and younger sister) were on a ski trip with another family (mother, father and ten year old son). We were all getting fitted for skis and boots and the store associate fitted us asked what I weighed and my mom told him. I overheard the mother of the other family informed the associate what her son weighed and at the age of ten I weighed a little more than the boy at ten years of age, so the message that I chose to believe was that “I am fat, and I am inadequate”. The exploitation became a part of my personality, I was treated poorly as a result of the way some of the kids in my fifth grade, but the overweight portion was entirely different. This is the first recollection I have of thinking I needed to lose weight, however my eating disorder behavior did not start until my sophomore year of college.
Breast cancer is a type of cancer originates from breast tissue, generally from the inner lining of milk ducts or the lobules that supply the ducts with milk. Cancers originating from lobules are known as lobular carcinomas whereas from ducts are called ductal carcinomas. (Ref: Breast Cancer, National Cancer Institute) Invasive breast cancer is breast cancer that has spread from the point of origin in the breast ducts/lobules to the surrounding normal tissue cells. In exceptional cases, breast cancer can start in at other sites in breast. Breast cancer occurs in both women and men, though male breast cancer is uncommon.
About 12% of women in the United States will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, more than any other type of cancer (www.breastcancer.org, 2015). Many people lack the knowledge of how breast cancer is developed. Some people think they will not get cancer because they do not smoke cigarettes, but this is not the only cause of cancer developing in the breast. Anyone can get cancer. Everyone is potentially at risk for developing some form of Cancer (American Cancer Society, 2015).
In life we come across many struggles and hardships. Some have more struggles then others but we all have them. Breast cancer could be one of those struggles whether male or female. Breast cancer is not just something that a woman can get like most people believe. Anyone can get it. In this essay you will about what breast cancer is, some symptoms, how it is treated, and my personal experience with it. Most people do not know what breast cancer is they just know that it is cancer in the breast.
Today in the United States, Breast Cancer occurs in about one in eight women which is currently the most common cancer among women. The number of cases is expected to decrease due to the advancements in technology and dedicated researchers. Scientists have put an estimated 4.8 billion dollars towards the research every year to help find a cure or a new treatment for breast cancer ("STAT Facts Breast Cancer"). Researchers have found causes, put in research and theories that help with understanding treatments, prevention and also common symptoms and coping mechanisms.
Breast Cancer is defined as “a group of solid tumor malignancies arising in the tissues of the breast” (Sarah Crawford, Richard Alder, 2013) in human and other mammals. It can happen to both men and women. For women, breast cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer death. According to National Cancer Institute, in the United States, the 2014 estimated new cases and deaths of female from breast cancer are 232,670 and 40,000, respectively. For male, it’s 430 deaths out of 2,360 new cases. From these numbers, we can see that women in the U.S. are greatly affected by breast cancer, thus, it’s not difficult to imagine the impact on a worldwide level. Although these numbers look frightening, people can actually survive from breast cancer if it is detected early and treated properly, so it is extremely important for all of us, especially women, to have a better understanding of breast cancer.
Referring back to the symptoms and warning signs of Anorexia Nervosa , these young women explained methods and ways they tried to self-harm. Some examples of signs of Anorexia Nervosa include, withdrawal from friends and activities, low self-esteem, feelings of guilt after eating, abuse of diuretics, and the intense anxiety of gaining weight. Each of these four women showed these signs and more throughout their treatment. I was surprised to learn that after they left the treatment facility, they relapsed and went back to being underweight. Another thing that also caught my attention was Alisa’s drawing of her body. She labeled everything that was wrong with her such as saddlebags, muffin top, and areas that she needed to tone up just to name a few. Each woman mentioned that their goal was to be thin. The thought of weighing more than a hundred pounds was the worst thing they could
Laurie was a size fourteen at age eleven and weighed one-hundred fifty-five pounds. She went through elementary school being the kid that everyone called fat and never felt love from any of her peers. Even a counselor at her after-school YMCA program made an example of her to the other children. The teacher told all the children that she used to be as big as Laurie. Putting aside all the criticism from her fellow peers and teachers she found the courage and strength to lose weight. She began doing sit-ups and eating “healthier”. In all reality, she was eating less and less every day. She went from a size fourteen to a nine and then from a nine to a five. This all happened to her between summer and Christmas. By the following summer Laurie was a size double zero. During the following school year, she was called to the nurse’s office to be weighed and the scale read ninety-seven pounds. Laurie had become anorexic from the mentally abusing childhood she experienced from her peers.
Breast Cancer As defined by Majure, breast cancer is an “uncontrolled growth of abnormal breast cells” (Majure: 110). It is also one of the cancers that women fear the most. Not only do women get diagnosed with breast cancer, men do too. However, it isn't as bad, or as common, in men as it is in women, so doctors don’t recommend screening for men.
Headache, nausea, the culmination of weeks of food that isn't good for me. Through my years of studying, I have discovered how to build health through detoxification and nutrition, however I
As a couple of years went by she was gaining weight and losing weight excessively, she was 18 and the time I was 15.
How many of you can image being so hungry that you, didn’t have enough energy to talk or even walk? How many of you have went an entire day without eating and feeling like you were about to die?
“I look like a normal, well-adjusted 15-year-old high school sophomore. I like talking to friends on the phone, riding my bike, watching TV, and spending time with my boyfriend. I make above average grades and like math and science classes the best. However, about a year ago, my weight dropped to 72 pounds. I lay in a hospital bed with unkempt hair, fragile limbs and a sunken face. I was seriously ill. The villainous disease was not cancer or AIDS. I had anorexia, a condition which afflicts many teens and young adults, especially young women.” Holly (Caringonline.org)