Cancer is a bitch

Gail Konop Baker

"I want to be brave. I want to be big. I want to be gracious and cool. I want to be the Audrey Hepburn of cancer..." Gail Konop Baker was a runner, yoga practitioner, and lifelong subscriber to Prevention magazine. As her forty-sixth birthday approached, she looked forward to a time when she could at last take a deep breath, with one child heading off to college and the other two busy with their lives. She finally felt as if she was getting her life back. Then, right before Valentine's Day 2006, she heard the words that would forever change her: Just to be safe, I think we should biopsy. It was the beginning of her year-long struggle with breast cancer and its fallout-one that would upstage any midlife crisis she'd fretted was waiting in the wings. "I want to feel bad about my neck. I do," she writes. "But I feel bad I may not ever get to feel bad about my neck." Gail was suddenly...

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