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I had breast cancer and it was in my lymphatic system so I had to go through a pretty strong regimen of chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
I think anybody who gets a life-threatening disease like cancer,
it's a very fearful time of your life.
You know, it's learning how much it's spread.
And I remember one day saying to my doctor, I says, I can't do this anymore.
You know, I just, I couldn't get off the couch.
I couldn't do anything.
And I got to that point where I understood, you know, why end of life is... the end of life, right?
It's really hard to carry on sometimes.
And my doctor, Dr. Malpass, said to me, he said,
Suzanne, just hang on because this next drug, you'll feel better.
And that was Taxol, Paclitaxel, which is derived from the Pacific yew tree.
And these trees grow all around me in the forests around me.
And so then I started it and I did start to feel better.