Breast Cancer Awareness
Sunday, October 7, 2018 | The Newnan Times-Herald — 1D
Neighbors support each other through separate battles
“” It’s a sisterhood that no one really wants to be a part of or knows about until you go through it. — Bridgette Major
BY MELANIE RUBERTI melanie@newnan.com
When Bridgette Major, 42, moved into a home on West Wedgewood Circle, little did she know she’d make a new friend – and find a new sister – in Robinette Newson, 64. W h i l e t h e t wo nei g hb or s h ave a close bond, it ’s a sisterhood neither woman wanted to be a part of. Major moved across the street from Newsom in 2007, just three years after Newson’s first battle with breast cancer. “I was lying in bed one night and felt a lump the size of a lima bean under my arm,” Newson said. After rounds of tests, scans and a biopsy, Newson was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer. She said doctors took out six lymph nodes. Newson then went through six rounds of chemotherapy and four weeks of radiation before being declared “No Evidence of Disease,” or NED. She stayed in remission for almost 12 years, until an annual mammogram
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PHOTO BY MELANIE RUBERTI
Breast cancer survivors Robinette Newson, left, and Bridgette Major helped each other through their separate battles with breast cancer.
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