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| Gladys Baigent-Therens shows her Believe breast cancer awareness tattoo she got five weeks ago. She designed the tattoo herself and was diagnosed with breast cancer last year. Times-Herald photo by Lisa Goudy |
The time was 9:20 a.m. The date was Sept. 4, 2012. The phone rang at work.
Those are details Gladys Baigent-Therens can’t forget because it was then she found out she had breast cancer.
“The whole thing kind of embarrasses me and it shouldn’t because it’s nothing I did and they’ve told me that and I don’t know why I feel that way. But I still just kind of do I guess. I hate the word,” she said. “Here we are in October and I guess it’d be about two months ago that I actually accepted the fact that I have cancer and that I’m a cancer patient.
“I couldn’t even actually say that word probably until two months ago, even though I had two surgeries and all the radiation and all the appointments.”
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