Michelle’s Brave Shave: Fight Like a Girl!

Michelle Crider was always vigilant about her yearly breast self- exam, even though she was just 32 and had no family history of breast cancer. Perhaps being a surgical technician and working around cancer made her wary – or at least aware of the disease. Michelle never really thought about cancer happening to her, until the first day of the spring semester this year. That’s when she found a lump in her left breast while getting dressed for class.  She froze for an instant. Then she thought, “No. It couldn’t be.” Later that day, she asked several co-workers for their opinion, and the verdict was “It’s probably nothing”, just a cyst or an inflamed lymph node since she had a cold.  So, Michelle dove back into working full time at Mercy Hospital, being a full- time student at UCO, and living her busy life...