Barb VanEsseltine is retired from a long career as an IT Project Manager. She is passionate about her volunteer work with gun violence prevention efforts in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and she shows her dogs in dog agility competitions. In this episode, she shares her experience of hormone-receptor positive breast cancer, which was treated with a lumpectomy followed by radiation therapy. She discusses the process of tapering off of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) as a precaution against future cancer recurrence, and dealing with a resurgence in post-menopausal symptoms as a result. She takes an attitude that health challenges are inevitable for all of us, which allows her to stay focused on treatment and recovery, and which gives her compassion for what others may be suffering from that we are not even aware of.

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