A Dream, a Diagnosis and a Powerful Gift from Strangers
By Keith Oppenheim, Red Cross writer Kathleen Capetta Just a few years ago, Kathleen Capetta described her life in Camden, Maine as “uncommonly blessed”. The mother of three school-aged kids, Kathleen felt everything was going really well. Until suddenly, it wasn’t. In what sounds like a scene out of a movie, she says she had a dream in which she heard a voice telling her she was going to die. “And I got up that morning and knew something was wrong,” she said. It turned out Kathleen’s dream was onto something real. She went to see her doctor and got tests, including a mammogram. In short time, she was diagnosed with stage 2 invasive ductal carcinoma. Breast cancer. What came next was tough. “I had a grueling battle with breast cancer. I got diagnosed when I was 40,” she said. The chemo treatments lasted 15 months. As Kathleen continued, she felt tired and frustrated. At times, she...
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