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BY KIMBERLY SKINNER
y name is Kimberly Skinner, and I am the 41-year-old proud mother of
two. I recently had one of my prayers answered regarding seeing my son
graduate from high school this past month, and my daughter is making me
proud every day by attacking her collegiate studies on her path to fulfilling
her dreams of becoming a psychiatrist. My name is Kimberly Skinner, and
I am living with cancer.
On December 31, 2019, at the tender age of 38, I was diagnosed with triple-negative
invasive ductal carcinoma with metastasis 2B breast cancer (TNBC), after being misdiagnosed
with benign tumors a month earlier. Being a young African American woman
with no history of cancer left me feeling as though I wasn't being seen, let alone heard,
when I presented my concerns regarding a lump that I felt in my left breast. I was almost
promised I was too young to have cancer. It was presented that it could be several other
things, but not cancer. I can still hear the annoyance in the physicians voice when I
asked if he was going to do a biopsy. He exhaled and said, " if it will make you rest, then
I will take a piece. " In my head I am screaming " Rest! No, I want you to first treat me
like a human being. Second, I am not too young! Third, I came to you and put my trust
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in you, and you are failing me as my doctor. "
I left that visit feeling as if I was less
than a person and with more questions
than I had answers. So, imagine waiting
to get a call and being told in an almost
condescending tone, " I told you it was
nothing but a fibroid. " I asked if I could
get a second opinion; the doctor paused
and repeated the words second opinion? I
said, " yes. " He then proceeded to tell me
that if I wanted to waste resources on a
second opinion, even though he told me
what it was, that I could do so. The second
opinion visit came weeks later, but I am so
thankful for the time MY doctor gave to
me. The time that was taken to address my
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