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Denise Schipani is a New York-based writer and editor who writes the Doing My Breast: Adventures in Cancer blog for Everyday Health. She's at work on a memoir.
My old self left the building when I received a diagnosis of Stage I breast cancer. And while it’s true I survived, I can’t bring myself to quite love the body that walked back in.