SPOKANE VALLEY, Wash. – Paula Taylor loves riding motorcycles, and this ‘Super Nana’ didn’t know how to take her foot off the gas when she was diagnosed with triple-negative breast cancer at age 61 in June of 2014.
“You feel rough and tough when you ride a motorcycle, and you feel like you could do anything, and then you get a diagnosis like that and all of a sudden you get deflated,” Paula said. “I had skipped my mammogram and I was blaming myself. I skipped a year. How could I have done that? I’m smarter than that. Triple-negative is a very aggressive cancer.”
That TNBC diagnosis wasn’t the only shocking news that week for Paula and her boyfriend, Carl.
“I went with her to the biopsy, and during the biopsy, I got a phone call…my son-in-law had passed away,” Carl said. “One of those shocking things you aren’t prepared for.”…