For the past few weeks, she's been feeling better and is "passionate about getting the word out about Inflammatory Breast Cancer."
It's a term she'd never heard of until two years ago.
The Columbia resident, now 62, is a registered nurse who was working full-time in the psychiatry unit at Baltimore Washington Medical Center when she discovered a "small red mark" on her breast 29 months ago.
"I had a lumpectomy in my left breast in 2001," she...
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