Two years ago this month, Emmy Pontz-Rickert, 24, of Ypsilanti Twp. Mich., found out she had breast cancer. She is one of the women we chose to be the face of our book, Breast Cancer Surgery & Reconstruction: What’s Right for You” to be published in June, 2016 by Rowman & Littlefield. Her story resonates here again. Emmy is the mother of a darling little girl, Grace, born this year. She is active in an African orphanage as well as in Michigan breast cancer causes, where she shares her story about breast cancer surgery and reconstruction issues so other women will benefit. Go Emmy.
In a few hours, I go in for my second mastectomy and the beginning of reconstruction. I have been down such a journey thus far, including other surgeries and c…