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Chloe Peterson was in good spirits the morning before her mastectomy.
Perched in mid-October in the sunny sitting room of her house in Saginaw with two of her daughters, with great-grandson Kason watching cartoons in an adjacent room, she talked about her upcoming surgery with the calm and serenity of someone who has seen it all before.
At 78, Peterson is battling her fifth brush with cancer ? a rough journey that has taken place over nearly half a century ? and facing it with optimism. When asked what the anticipated recovery time from her mastectomy might be, for example, she shaved two weeks off her daughter?s assessment of six weeks without hesitation.
?She has set the bar very high for all of us in the family because she has come through with such a remarkable attitude no matter what she?s faced with,? daughter Melanie Metcalf said.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/topstories/x2112908020/Joplin-woman-s-cancer-battle-spans-45-years
Perched in mid-October in the sunny sitting room of her house in Saginaw with two of her daughters, with great-grandson Kason watching cartoons in an adjacent room, she talked about her upcoming surgery with the calm and serenity of someone who has seen it all before.
At 78, Peterson is battling her fifth brush with cancer ? a rough journey that has taken place over nearly half a century ? and facing it with optimism. When asked what the anticipated recovery time from her mastectomy might be, for example, she shaved two weeks off her daughter?s assessment of six weeks without hesitation.
?She has set the bar very high for all of us in the family because she has come through with such a remarkable attitude no matter what she?s faced with,? daughter Melanie Metcalf said.
http://www.joplinglobe.com/topstories/x2112908020/Joplin-woman-s-cancer-battle-spans-45-years