2018 Paint paper pink

2018 Paint the Paper Pink Lincoln Daily News October 2018 Page 55 hen old friends reconnect they compare their battle scars – literally! W hen old friends reconnect, what is the first thing they do? Catch up of course, and for Kathy Anderson and Jane DeWitt ‘catching up’ meant comparing battle scars – literally. Jane and Kathy are both breast cancer survivors. Jane a 20-year survivor and Kathy is an 18-year survivor. The two women have been friends for almost 40 years. In their personal lives though, from time to time the changes they were going through caused the two to drift apart, but they come back together, and Jane said they always seemed to pick up right where they had left off. In recent years, the two were in their drifted apart chapter of their lives, when they came back together and it was a wonderful reunion for both of them. As they began to talk about what they had been doing, where they had been, and what had changed in their lives they came to realize that in the time apart, both had battled breast cancer. Both had gone through surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. Jane recently talked about that reunion and said that among the things they did to catch up was show each other their battle scars. Jane was the first to be diagnosed. She said that she found her cancer in the mirror. By Nila Smith Kathy Anderson (left) and Jane DeWitt CONTINUE ...