Cancer in the Platte Valley

Editor’s note: This is the second story in a series about Michelle McWain. She is a wife, a mother, a Carbon County School District No. 2 employee and a breast cancer survivor.

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When Michelle McWain received the call telling her she had breast cancer, there was no time for her to feel sorry for herself. Her life was at risk, and waiting was not an option.

“The most frustrating thing was being your own advocate,” Michelle said. “You are trying to deal with the shock of being diagnosed, and in my mind, things didn’t go fast enough.”

But along her road to recovery, there was literally a mounta...