Sometimes when it rains, it pours. Carolyn Petschler is all too familiar with that cliché. During a particularly rough time, while struggling with Crohn’s disease and a recent foot injury, Petschler made a precautionary trip to the doctor to get herself examined after a colleague was diagnosed with advanced-stage breast cancer.
“It was a really big wake-up call,” Petschler says of her colleague’s diagnosis. “So I went in and decided to get a mammogram. I hadn’t had one for 10 years, but I felt the lump, and [it] turned out that it was a cyst. But what I didn't know is that [the doctors] would find two other lumps, one in each breast.