A Montreal woman who was told by health-care professionals that she was too young for breast cancer but later diagnosed with it, has died from the disease. Valerie Buchanan was 32 when she died at the end of February.
“I keep asking myself why anyone, but selfishly, why her?” Chris Scheepers, Buchanan’s husband told CTVNews.ca in a telephone interview. “She was a beautiful person. She was extremely driven, talented and positive. What really breaks me is our son won’t know the truly remarkable woman she was.”
Throughout 2020, Buchanan sought answers for a lump in her chest but had said she was reassured by multiple health-care professionals in Ottawa and Montreal that it was a benign cyst without sending her for imaging to confirm.
After 13 months, Buchanan eventually went to a private clinic and was diagnosed with Stage 3 triple-negative breast cancer – a biologically aggressive subtype of breast cancer. Just a few months later, she learned it was Stage 4.
My wife had a lump in her breast at… I think 27. They sent her to imaging and took a biopsy, realized it was benign, removed it anyways because it was hurting. The parking tickets were our only cost. This should be the norm.
If it was IBC there maybe no lump, in ibc The tumor is just formign sheets of cancer cells rather than masses.
That absolutely should be the norm. There’s no good reason things can’t be this way in modern civilization.
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I disagree…
You shouldn’t have to pay for parking either.
Yes you should, it’s an incredibly privileged mindset to think that public space should be sacrificed so that you can conveniently and freely park your car
You’ve decided to interpret my comment in your own way.
There are many options for travel that would not require a car, if the infrastructure were in place, that would then allow people needing a space for a medical reason to have parking available.
No, you absolutely should not have to pay for parking either when you’re there for a medical reason.
Yes you should