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Elizabeth S. Bennett
That Was Not My Plan!
New job, new city, new baby, new role as a rabbi’s wife. But the diagnosis outdid the rest.
I’m in the car jammed between my two- and three-year old boys in their bulky car seats. My in-laws are driving us to a playground in our new city, Los Angeles, and my cell phone rings showing an incoming call from my GP. The news isn’t good. My second-opinion cancer surgeon has found something new—an aggressive tumor that throws into question all of the conversations and thinking and agonizing my husband and I have been doing for the last several weeks.
Jewish Women. Breast Cancer.
The articles in this special section:
That Was Not My Plan!
Elizabeth S. Bennett
New job, new city, new baby, new role as a rabbi’s wife. But the diagnosis outdid the rest.
Bonding: Intimacy During — and After — My Cancer
Ali Walensky
She chose "kink" sex, for pain she herself could control.
Scenes From a Mastectomy
Alicia Ostriker
Looking back at the surgery decades later, the noted poet confesses her survivor's glee — and guilt.
