I Had Two When I Came In
By Ellie Wyatt
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Elizabeth Lancaster, executive director Hillsborough County Unit American Cancer Society
I Had Two When I Came In is one womans confrontation with cancer of the breast. It reveals a very personal experience that is shared by many and dreaded by all women. Not all women with breast cancer will receive the same treatment given Ellie Wyatt, but most will be subjected to the same emotional and psychological stresses associated with removal of the breast. Her success in adjusting to the realities of cancer and to her new body image is evident throughout. The book, written with courage and humor, is Mrs. Wyatts gift to any who may face the same disease with its medical consequences.
David M. Richter, MD, Major, USAF
Chief, General Surgery
MacDill AFB Hospital
Ellie Wyatt
Ellie Wyatt came through the mastectomy operation beautifully. It was her lack of information that made her suffer the most. She became determined she would do everything in her power to help prevent other women from going through the same experience she did—no information when faced with cancer. Her account of the different phases of treatment she underwent for breast cancer is extremely informative. The satirical slant is refreshingly presented. Ellie Wyatt is one of a pair of identical twins, and as she points out, her twin sister is still “all together.” They both were the last of a family of fifteen children raised in Woodside, Long Island, New York. When she was twenty-four, Ellie Wyatt joined the US Air Force during the Korean conflict. During the time she spent in the air force, she became a court reporter. After being honorably discharged from the air force, she went into legal secretarial work. She’s been recording secretary on the executive board of Local Union 173 of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, publicity chairman of the Key West Chapter of the National Association of Legal Secretaries, has been a notary public since 1955, worked in income tax at Wards and Sears, and completed approximately ten years in federal civil service. She also writes poetry, which she would like to see transformed into music.
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I Had Two When I Came In - Ellie Wyatt
Copyright © 2011 by Ellie Wyatt.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2011915585
ISBN: Hardcover 978-1-4653-6044-1
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102242
To my husband
Who never screamed at the sight
Of the lopsided vision
Of one left on the right.
Contents
PREFACE
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
102242.mock up_Page_06_Image_0001.jpgMastectomy is no joke at all
But if this is the category in which you fall
You’re better off to have one side flat
Than to rest on a slab—flat on your back.
PREFACE
THE TITLE