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Bonita
Bonita is a wife and mother of two beautiful daughters. She has also
devoted her life to nursing. As a registered nurse she has cared for
other people in need for years. She is one of the most caring people I
have ever known.
She was diagnosed while we were working in California after a 6 month
misdiagnosis of "mastitis". A very generous physician at this small
hospital in Northern California happened to listen to her complaints
of a swollen breast and the lack of improvement after several rounds
of antibiotics. He urged her to seek testing to rule out "Inflammatory
Breast Cancer". None of us Registered Nurses had ever heard of this
type of breast cancer. Sure enough, after days of tests and biopsies,
Bonita was told that she had stage 4, IBC.
She has undergone many aspects of treatment and is at home loving her
family and savoring every single day on this earth. We are all praying
every single day, and have taken this experience into our practices
as Registered Nurses. With teaching, not only to our patients, but
also each other and the other professionals we encounter, we hope to
help widen the awareness of IBC in the health care setting. If we can
help just one person get the help they need sooner, without
misdiagnosis, then maybe we will feel like we have done something for
Bonita.
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