‘ Eat Cake For Breakfast ’ : A Tribute to Kate Spade

“Are you sure she needs this surgery?” my brother asked my surgeon minutes before the doctor entered the operating room. My brother was suspicious of Western medicine’s harsh approaches to treating cancer. “If she doesn’t have this surgery, she’ll be dead in three months,” the surgeon said sternly, put out that my brother would even question his authority. I would learn of this conversation several days after my operation to remove an angiosarcoma on my right breast. The angiosarcoma had resulted from radiation treatment I’d had to eliminate another breast cancer four years before.   Two bouts of cancer in less than five years. And besides having a physical disease, I also had a mental illness. I was bipolar. I was a victim of the universe’s double whammy. I was a mess. My husband told me about my brother’s question and the surgeon’s answer after my anesthesia was beginning to wear off, again, about a week later. Their discussion sent shivers down my spine. I had no idea I’d been so close to death. This kind of situation demanded immediate action. I needed something to take my mind off of my mortality, to titillate me, to feed my immediate desires.   I needed to go shopping. Unable to drive, I had my mother take me to the nearest mall. I found myself in Dillard’s housewares section. I was looking for something that would obliterate my near-death situation from my troubled mind. I studied the cookware, the kitchen rugs, silverware. Nothing seemed ri...
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