My wife and I, as well as our youngest daughter Mary, two grand daughters, Jennifer and Sarah decided to get these tattoo’s as a permanent show of our support for our second daughter, Susan who was diagnosed with breast cancer on November 10th 2009. At the same time, our oldest daughter Kathy was awaiting the results of a lumpectomy she had of a growth on her breast. (NEGATIVE ) In the mean time, Mary herself had a needle biopsy for a breast growth (ALSO NEGATIVE)
Susan spent the winter going through chemo and was surrounded by all of the family and her many friends. She had a double mastectomy in April 2010 and just had the last of her reconstruction surgeries.
Susan maintained her family and friends with her sense of humor, in face of the terrible consequences of chemo with her almost daily updates on Caring Bridge.
Ironically almost every female in our family and their friends have participated in the Susan B. Komen 60 mile walk in Philadelphia for the past 4 years. No one in our family ever had any kind of cancer but they walked for those of their friends who had it or who’s family members had it. Then in November of 2009 it struck our family! It can happen to anyone, at any time !
Jack and Betty Wagner
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