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This is a sponsored post for SheSpeaks/AstraZeneca. “You should have your ovaries removed.” Sitting in her hospital bed, wrapped in blankets, my mother peered across the room at me. I’d heard this before from her. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer nearly ten years earlier, my ...Read More

I’ve been largely absent on Red Shutters the past few weeks, and I want to explain why.   My beloved mother passed away on August 31. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2006, she survived multiple reoccurrences of the disease over the past nine and ...Read More