Courtesy of Melanie Majors Mauck
- When I turned 66, I was looking forward to retirement, but I was then diagnosed with breast cancer.
- I had to put retirement on hold to deal with surgeries and radiation.
- I am now a cancer survivor, but my retirement is still uncertain.
When I turned 66 in May, I was relieved to receive Medicare and had a long list of routine appointments I wanted to plow through. When a yearly mammogram showed something suspicious and turned out to be breast cancer, my world was instantly changed.
I heard the news over the phone on my way home from the city, sitting between strangers on the train to Saratoga.