Breast Cancer Stories
Breast Cancer Stories is about what happens when you have breast cancer, told in real time. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with breast cancer or love someone who has, this podcast is here to help you through the shock of diagnosis and treatment....
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Breast Cancer Stories is about what happens when you have breast
cancer, told in real time. Whether you’ve just been diagnosed with
breast cancer or love someone who has, this podcast is here to help
you through the shock of diagnosis and treatment.
The first season of Breast Cancer Stories follows Kristen Vengler,
a 56 year old single empty nester in San Diego, from her diagnosis
of hormone positive breast cancer through chemotherapy, double
mastectomy & breast reconstruction, radiation, and whatever
happens after that. In 2020, Kristen moved from Austin to San Diego
to start her life over after a life-shattering workplace trauma. A
few months later she had that terrifying moment in the shower we
all hope we never have.
The second season follows Natasha Curry, a palliative care nurse
practitioner at San Francisco General Hospital, throughout her
experience of going from being a nurse to a patient after being
diagnosed with breast cancer. Like Kristen, Natasha was working to
overcome a massively traumatic event at the time of her diagnosis.
Natasha was in Malawi on a Doctors Without Borders mission in 2021
when her husband of 25 years announced in a text message that he
was leaving. She returned home, fell into bed for a few weeks, and
eventually with the help of her friends she pulled herself together
and went back to work.
A few months later when she discovered an almond-sized lump in her
armpit, she did everything she tells her patients not to do and
dismissed it, or wrote it off as a “fat lump." Months went by
before Natasha finally got a mammogram, but radiology saw nothing
in either breast. It was the armpit lump that caught their
attention. Next step was an ultrasound, where the lump was clearly
visible. One painful biopsy later, Natasha found out she had
cancer; in one life-changing moment, the nurse became the patient.
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