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Location : Wasted Space Job/hobbies : Cayman Islands Actuary
| Subject: For what it's worth: Curious link between world peace and gender equality Sat Jun 16, 2018 6:48 pm | |
| Katie Jurek was 19 years old when she was told the osteosarcoma, an aggressive form of bone cancer, had returned. She could amputate her leg or die within three months.
For the teenager with a contagious smile, love of fashion and a determined streak from the state of Minnesota in America’s upper mid-west, it was an agonising choice.
“They told us immediately that it was terminal. When her type of cancer recurs … you simply can’t survive it,” Lynn Poferl recalled of her daughter, who was first diagnosed at 16. “She amputated and most people would think that’s an easy decision, but it really wasn’t.”
It was “the best thing she could have done”. Katie, who had been bed-ridden, regained her mobility. The surgery bought her two years to return to college and travel the world.
https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/curious-link-between-world-peace-and-gender-equality-20180615-p4zlth.html |
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