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By Steve Sears hank you, Daisy. “My Daisy - I’ve never had a dog before in my entire life until my husband surprised me with her on my birthday about four years ago,” says 37-year-old Amanda Tasca. “And I’m literally obsessed with her. She’s a little black pug, she’s like my shadow.” “All the time, every day, I tell her, ‘You’re my little angel.’” A true Guardian Angel, for both Tasca and her older sister, Wayne resident Amy Niosi. “Honestly, I really didn’t think it was anything,” says Tasca, referring to the evening when Daisy had jumped on her chest while she was lying in bed. “It startled me because where she had hit had hurt, and when I had grabbed myself, I said, ‘Oh, that’s weird.’ There was a lump there, and I was feeling around, and (I noticed) it was a little bit bigger of a lump.” The day prior to Thanksgiving in 2019 it was confirmed that Tasca had breast cancer, and it was the only time she cried. “Most of all I was scared. My father was diagnosed with prostate cancer when I was 15, and he wound up passing (away) about two years ago. I just didn’t know what to think; hearing that word was very scary. Since I hadn’t dealt with it myself, I didn’t know what the extreme of my diagnosis was. I didn’t know if it spread. I cried because I felt bad for my mother, because now she had to deal with this with her daughter. It was basically the fear of the unknown.” When Tasca told Niosi, 38, that her breast cancer had been confirmed, her older sister thought she might have it as well. “I just intuitively had that sinking feeling,” she recalls. “I had just had my son, John. He was born on July 6,
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Amanda Tasca (l) and Amy Niosi (r)
2018. I was at the doctor all the time between ultrasounds and checkups and I had no real reason to think I had any type of cancer, let alone breast cancer.” After Niosi and her husband had hosted Thanksgiving, everyone departed, and she was on the couch with her continued on page 2
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