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Ellen Hamilton, who has been diagnosed twice with breast cancer, backpacks through Wyoming’s Wind River Wilderness with her two children, Spencer and Lauren. (Photo courtesy of the Hamilton family.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ellen Hamilton, at age 52, is the picture of health. She eats well, takes long hikes up Mount Herman near Monument, Colorado, climbs the Pikes Peak Incline weekly and backpacks through Wyoming\u2019s Wind River Wilderness.<\/p>\n

She also has breast cancer \u2013 again.<\/p>\n

At the age of 39, a couple of days after completing the Pikes Peak Ascent and the Boulder Backroad Marathon, Hamilton was diagnosed with Her 2 Positive breast cancer after noticing a discharge from her breast.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt came from out of the blue,\u2019\u2019 Hamilton said. \u201cI thought, \u2018I don\u2019t have breast cancer \u2013 I\u2019m too healthy. I just ran a marathon.\u2019 I was shocked.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The lessons she learned after battling cancer the first time have served her well this time, even though her experience has been entirely different, both in her approach to cancer and the care she\u2019s received.<\/p>\n

The first diagnosis was hard to take. Cancer, she knows, as do so many\u00a0others raising awareness\u00a0this October for Breast Cancer Awareness Month,\u00a0is not discriminatory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just didn\u2019t understand that cancer can hit anyone. People would say, \u2018Oh, my gosh, you are so healthy and I began to think, \u2018who is not going to get it?\u2019 It seemed like it was a roll of the dice. \u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

At the time, her children, Lauren and Spencer, were in elementary school, and they still needed their mother for all the things that mothers do. She was upset with God and wondered how this could happen to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was hurt and anger because I had done such a good job taking care of myself. It wasn\u2019t like I could look back and say, \u2018Oh, if only I had changed this,\u2019\u2019 because there was nothing to change. I had lived a very healthy life.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Prayer, although a refuge, was filled for months with the bottled-up angst over having cancer. She said she finally found peace when she began to listen more intently, and God was telling her, \u201cIt\u2019s not your choice whether you go through this. It\u2019s your choice whether you go through this with me.\u201d She wiped her tears and walked boldly into the new path set before her, determined to live it with grace. She now understood that, \u201cCancer is not a choice that any of us can make, but our choice is how we choose to go through it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

She leaned on family and friends and her faith. \u201cI just kept telling myself \u2013 \u2018Eyes on him.\u2019\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Ellen Hamilton says having breast cancer is not discriminatory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The approach helped her through chemo, radiation, losing her hair and a mastectomy. She continued working as an information technology consultant and mom to her children. Today, Lauren plans to become a nurse practitioner and Spencer pursues a degree in Political Science and International Affairs. Ellen and her husband, Dave, continue their active lifestyle \u2013 running, riding bikes and hiking.<\/p>\n

Thirteen years later, Hamilton felt what she described as a \u201cBB,\u2019\u2019 in the area where the mastectomy had been done. She asked her primary care doctor about it and he sent her to Dr. Laura Pomerenke<\/a>, a beloved breast surgeon at UCHealth Memorial Hospital\u2019s Mary Lou Beshears Breast Care Clinic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pomerenke had cared for Hamilton during her first round with breast cancer. When the two women reunited at the clinic, they had fun sharing updates about the kids, husbands and jobs and then Pomerenke did a biopsy on the \u201cBB.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

That Friday night, while Dave was in Chicago visiting a childhood friend with Stage IV Colon cancer, Hamilton was home alone. Dr. Pomerenke called and told Ellen that the Her 2 Positive breast cancer had returned. Hamilton was stunned, in shock, just as she was the first time she heard such news.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Laura Pomerenke<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the quiet, she remembered the lessons from the first round: \u201cCancer is not a choice that any of us can make, but our choice is how we go through it. Eyes on God.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

From the outset, the journey was much different. This time, she had deeper understanding and acceptance.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have a choice in the matter. I keep doing the things that rock my world and enliven me,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cI can\u2019t say I ever stop praying about it \u2013 It\u2019s more of a continual prayer from the heart \u2013 but I pray that God\u2019s will be done whatever that is because that\u2019s where I want to be, and to not focus on cancer but on living life.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

She has embraced how different the cancer journey is now, compared to then.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been shocked at how different the experience is now, verses 13 years ago. Then it was more of a confusing experience \u2013 you were part of it but you weren\u2019t,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cNow, it is an amazingly different experience.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

The care is much more centered on the patient, and the communication with medical providers who explain procedures and set expectations is better. She\u2019s taken a Chemo Teach course to understand how the chemo coursing through her body is designed to work. She has a nurse navigator \u2013 a mix of concierge and angel \u2013 who is there to talk to, answer questions, and guide her through a journey that no one wants to take twice.<\/p>\n

In the olden days \u2013 about 20 years ago \u2013 Her 2 Positive cancer was considered \u201ca really bad, very aggressive cancer. The recurrence rate was twice a non-Her 2 cancer. In the late 1990s, Herceptin, one of the first target antibody therapies to treat Her 2 Positive was developed, and now there are three additional therapies to treat the cancer.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven though this is tiny, we treat it aggressively,\u2019\u2019 she said. Doctors do not know why Hamilton\u2019s cancer returned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t know why. Here it hung around for 10-plus years, but we caught it early, and she is going to do well,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Pomerenke said.<\/p>\n

She said that her oncologist, Dr. Ann Mellott<\/a>, has done her best to tailor chemo therapy so she can \u201cget through it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cWe looked at what her experience had been with chemotherapy in the past and what we could do to try to minimize the side effects,\u2019\u2019 Dr. Mellott said. \u201cWe took the time to go through her past history and what she went through to make sure that her current treatment was appropriate and we were not going to repeat the same issues.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

\"Dr.
Dr. Ann Mellott<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Mellott said she appreciates Ellen\u2019s energy and positive attitude.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the process has improved so much, from the front end to the back end, it is just amazing. Just from the impression of what I\u2019ve gone through this time, I have to give huge kudos,\u2019\u2019 Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

Before Mother\u2019s Day, her daughter, Lauren, who is studying to be a nurse practitioner, went to a pottery shop and made a coffee mug for her mom. It says: \u201cYou are stronger than you know.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Every morning, Hamilton uses the mug to sip on her morning java. And every morning, she reads those powerful words.<\/p>\n

While receiving chemotherapy, Hamilton introduced herself to a woman who was seated in the next bay. The woman had just started chemo and the two chatted about their next appointments, etc.<\/p>\n

At home, Hamilton talked to her daughter, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be nice to be there for her last round of chemo?\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

While Hamilton worked as an information technology consultant, Lauren went into their basement and made up a few greeting cards that said: \u201cYou are stronger than you know\u2019\u2019 and also included the Bible verse Zephaniah 3:17.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook what I made\u2019\u2019 Lauren said, emerging from the basement a little later.<\/p>\n

A few days later, Hamilton and her daughter bought flowers and delivered them and the cards to all the patients receiving chemotherapy at UCHealth Memorial Hospital. Patients were touched by their humanity and kindness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you\u2019ve been through it twice, you\u2019re not overwhelmed anymore. People going through it the first time are terrified,\u2019\u2019 Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

Practicing random kindness, she said, is one of the things she does to \u201cturn around the moment,\u2019\u2019 she said. \u201cThis life is not about me.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

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Ellen Hamilton hiking through Wyoming’s Wind River Wilderness.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hamilton completed chemotherapy on a Tuesday and went backpacking with Dave and the adult children in the Wind River Wilderness on Wednesday. The three carried extra weight to help lighten Hamilton\u2019s pack so she could accomplish the trek.<\/p>\n

Along the way, Hamilton marveled at the snow-capped jagged peaks, lush green valleys and deep blue mountain lakes, grateful for the moment.<\/p>\n

She will continue receiving chemo therapy through November. Each morning, she\u2019ll drink from the coffee cup from Lauren, mindful that she is stronger than she knows.<\/p>\n

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