Elaine Kimball, who continues to knit Knitted Knockers following her daughter's death due to breast cancer, holds a pair of the knit prostheses Tuesday while Bag and Boob Babes Northwest Director Sheila Wayman models a drain apron and matching pillow.
October 10, 2024
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Bag and Boob Babes makes comfort items for breast cancer patients, survivors
Bag and Boob Babes makes comfort items for breast cancer patients, survivors
Losing a body part — a limb, a finger, a breast — is never easy. "When we have parts of our body amputated, there’s something missing," Stephanie Keaty, 58, of Hayden, said Tuesday. "When breasts are amputated, as in a mastectomy, something’s gone." Keaty underwent bilateral mastectomy operations not once, but twice following her initial breast cancer diagnosis in 2005.