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Priscilla Bacus, who has been cancer-free for more than a decade, runs to stay in shape. She stays connected to the community through her work with Links for Life, a organization that assists local women and families battling breast cancer. PHOTO BY APRIL MASSIRIO
Running circles around cancer BY KELLY DAMIAN Community contributor
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t was just a lump. Sizable enough that she could feel it when she lay down on her side. But Priscilla Bacus was only 42 years old and very fit, so she assumed it was nothing to be worried about. She waited a month, but the lump in her left breast showed no signs of diminishing. So in July 2001, Priscilla went to see her general practitioner. The doctor was concerned enough to send her to get a mammogram immediately. After the mammogram, Priscilla stopped by the store to pick up a cake. It was her daughter’s 15th birthday, and they had plans to celebrate later that day. She returned to work, put the cake in the fridge and checked her voicemail. On the phone was a message from the doctor telling her that she needed to see a surgeon. “That’s when I lost it,” Priscilla remembered. There was no history of cancer in her family and no room for cancer in her busy life. Priscilla had a demanding job and was very involved in the high school sports of her two children — David, a senior at the time, and Cassandra, a freshmen. She and her husband, Frank, had been running regularly for the past 14 years and she had completed several marathons.
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She left work and called her husband, Frank, to tell him the news that she might have cancer. They decided to not tell their children until they had more specifics. That night the family celebrated Cassandra’s birthday while Frank and Priscilla kept quiet about the worries brewing in the back of their minds. To see if the lump was cancerous, Priscilla underwent a fine needle aspiration. In this procedure, a surgeon uses a very thin needle to pull fluid out of a suspicious cyst. The cells from this biopsy are then examined under a microscope and a diagnosis can be made in two or three days. The results of Priscilla’s test were inconclusive. She would have to undergo a surgical biopsy. “I had two choices,” she explained. “They could send it in for a biopsy and then if it was cancer, I had to go back under again to take out my lymph nodes. Or I could just stay on the table.” Priscilla opted to stay under anesthesia while her lump was being biopsied. When she came out of surgery, she saw that three hours had gone by. She knew from the length of the surgery that the lump was cancerous and some of her lymph nodes had been removed. She had stage 2 cancer. “During that time it was depressPlease turn to CANCER / 2
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CANCER CONTINUED FROM 1 ing. I never thought there’d be a day again that I wouldn’t wake up crying. I wasn’t really crying for myself. I was crying more about missing out on my kids growing up,” she said. At the time of her diagnosis, Priscilla’s straight, black hair hung all the way to her waist. Before beginning chemotherapy she went to a hair salon for the first time in her life and had her hair cut short. She donated it to Locks of Love, an organization that provides hairpieces to children who have lost their hair for medical reasons. Then the rounds of chemotherapy and radiation began. The routine of the weeks changed. Gone were the days of working Monday through Friday and looking forward to the weekends. Instead her life developed a new routine: Chemotherapy on Friday, feeling sick on Saturday and Sunday, then feeling
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OK again on Monday. The medicines had miserable side effects — nausea, achiness and hair loss. “I lost every speck of hair on my body. The eyebrows are the worst. You really look ill when you don’t have eyebrows,” she said. She didn’t want to feel ill and she didn’t want to be treated like she was weak. “I tried to stay as normal as possible. I stayed active the whole time. I still tried to exercise
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and run,” Priscilla said. Sometimes this drove Frank crazy. “My husband is very, very supportive,” she said. “He was there for all my treatments and took off from work. But he got upset with me ‘cause I tried to do more than I should. He wanted me to rest, and I wanted to be normal.” One thing that helped her feel normal was becoming involved in Links for Life, a local nonprofit that provides support for women struggling with breast cancer. At the Links for Life meetings, she got information and emotional support from other women who had been through the same struggles as she. Nowadays, when Priscilla talks to women who have been newly diagnosed with breast cancer, she encourages them to stay positive and attend the Links for Life meetings.
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Links for Life was started in 1992, with the mission to assist local women and families facing breast cancer. During the 2011-2012 fiscal year, Links for Life funded more than 212 mammograms and 558 ultrasounds free for underinsured and uninsured women in Kern County. It also fielded 5,740 phone calls with questions related to breach cancer, and fitted and provided 241 wigs for cancer patients at no cost. Links for Life educates the general public about breast health, hosts a golf tournament each spring and has a calendar of several events during the month of October. For more information on Links for Life, visit linksforlife.org.
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Priscilla has been cancerfree for more than a decade, but she has no desire to distance herself from Bakersfield’s cancer support network. “I’ve met great people along the way that are still with me,” she said. “Cancer has made me a stronger person and now I’m trying to put that back out to everybody else.” Priscilla gives back by cochairing the October walk that Links for Life sponsors every year. She also has her own team that participates in Relay for Life, a fundraiser put on by the American Cancer Society. Today, at 54, Priscilla and her daughter have matching pink ribbons tattooed on their right shoulder blades and she drives a Corvette, bought at the suggestion of her husband
This article first appeared in Bakersfield Wellness Magazine, B Well. For more on local health and wellness, go to bwellmagazine.com, or find us on Facebook and Twitter (@BWellMag).
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