Renée Herman Garber says she had to learn to let others help her as she treats her metastatic breast cancer — and shares what has been most helpful throughout her treatment
Courtesy of Renee Herman Garber
In February 2016, Renée Herman Garber’s doctor noticed a lump in her left breast.
“We didn’t really think anything of it,” remembers Garber, an elementary school teacher in Durham, N.C. At the time, she was a young, active 34-year-old and mother of a 4-year-old and 2-year-old, and with no family history of cancer, she assumed the lump was related to pumping breast milk.
“Cancer was just not even on my radar when I was 34,” says Garber. “No one could believe that I had cancer, because I was always the healthy one.”…