Unbeknownst to her continuents, let alone her children, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz has been fighting breast cancer for over a year. She revealed all to Robin Roberts of ABC, another Cancer survivor.
"I really wanted to make sure that I could protect my children," she told ABC. "They were 8 and 4 when I was diagnosed. I wanted to tell them that mommy was going to be OK. I didn't want it to define me."
Schultz found a lump in her breast during a self-examination in December 2007 when she was 41. It was just two months after her first mammogram showed nothing.
Debbie is a huge asset to Florida, and routinely let Right wingers have it in entertaining debates on various talk shows.
"Young women do think we're invincible; and we don't think about it," Schultz, a Democrat whose district includes Miami, told Roberts. "And it will focus on educating physicians. So many times physicians blow off a young woman when she comes in with symptoms or warning signs because they don't focus on that young women can get breast cancer."
Wasserman-Shultz is a fighter, and has shown that in the political arena, and now in the healthcare arena.
We need to have Universal Healthcare so that more women will be able to detect and treat various cancers and be able to have long, healthy lives with their families.
I was one of the fortunate ones who detected pre-cancerous cervical cells and had it treated and cured without having a hysterectomy. I can't imagine the women who don't have access to basic health screening and what they potentially would go through with cancers too advanced to treat.
Listen up President Obama: UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE, PLEASE!
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