Breast cancer survivor and flat-movement activist, Carolyn Choate, offers some rather interesting perspectives on some conventional social norms.
PUBLISHED February 03, 2018
Carolyn Choate recently retired from the TV production industry to write full-time. Diagnosed at 45 with stage 3 estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer in 2003, she underwent two radical mastectomies without reconstruction. Carolyn credits Angela Brodie, Ph.D., and her discovery of the aromatase inhibitor, for saving her life and those of millions of women globally. In the summer of 2017, Carolyn and her older daughter kayaked from New Hampshire to Baltimore in tribute to Dr. Brodie. When not informing others about Dr. Brodie and the “living flat” movement, Carolyn enjoys gardening, cooking and RVing with her family and dog.
Can I get some things off my chest? Mind you, I'm not physically capable of sacrificing anything more from that part of my anatomy, but you know what I mean. As someone who has embraced the flat life for the last three of my nearly 15 years of various breast cancer survival iterations (i.e. one breast and one prosthetic, no breasts and two prosthetics, no breasts and no prosthetics) I've been humoring myself, of late, with some rather provocative, "what if?"quandaries. A take on Arsenio Hall's, "Things That Make You Go Hmmmm," if you're old enough to remember that forgettable late-night talk show.
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