When Breast Cancer Pauses Life At 35

Death, Sex & Money

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Business, Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Careers, Relationships, Sexuality

4.6 • 7.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After a breast cancer diagnosis at 35, author Kate Pickert reflects on maintaining normalcy during treatment, why she didn't tell her daughter she was sick, and how she thinks about mortality now. Sign up for our newsletter at deathsexmoney.org/newsletter, and every Wednesday we'll send you podcast listening recommendations, listener letters from our inbox and updates from the show. Follow our show on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram @deathsexmoney. Got a story to share? Email us any time at [email protected]. Support Death, Sex & Money today at deathsexmoney.org/donate.

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0:00.0	We would kind of watch to see if anyone hit six. So you know you would kind of look
0:07.8	around as anyone else here for chemo treatment as people would get off the elevator
0:12.4	it was like who stayed on to go to
0:13.8	six? Okay, you're here for that.
0:16.4	This is death, sex, and money.
0:22.4	What do I do when he dies?
0:24.0	What next?
0:25.0	What next?
0:26.0	The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.
0:29.0	Well, I won't pay a full price,
0:30.0	so I'll give you a dime.
0:31.0	And need to talk about more.
0:33.0	I'm sure there are a million women who would love to kiss you.
0:36.0	I'm Anna Sale.
0:40.0	Four years ago I was visiting LA, and I had a beer with my friend Colin Campbell.
0:45.0	He and I had worked together in New York, but then he moved to the West Coast and it had been a while since we'd really caught up.
0:51.0	But I did know that he was supporting his wife through
0:54.2	breast cancer treatment. I mean Collins a producer so he sort of kind of
0:58.2	produced the cancer experience for me. That's Kate Pickert, Colin's wife.
1:05.0	I was 35 when I was diagnosed with breast cancer.
1:08.0	At the time of her diagnosis, Kate was a health care reporter for Time magazine, but she'd had very
1:14.6	little experience being a patient. Her instinct as a journalist was to learn more, but
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