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This story is not what I did for the animal, but what she did for me. She found my breast cancer. I still truly believe she was an angel sent from God to help me. I would not have found the lump this early or easily.

Gemma found my cancer by bumping me in that breast. I remember it very well. It hurt a lot. So I started feeling around. It got a little smaller but then it stopped getting smaller and just stayed the same. And it was hurting. Cancer doesn’t hurt, so they say. My doctor was thinking it was an infection from the bruise. I had a different feeling from day one. Finally, three months and three visits later, I asked him about a sonogram. He agreed. They found fluid in an abscess – not a sign of cancer. Still, I was pushing for a biopsy. When they did that, I knew it. I’ve seen enough cancer tissue with the cows. It was the same. 

We lost her when I was going through chemo. It broke my heart when she died. It was in a matter of hours. They found her and she did not respond to anything. First, I was so upset and cried. But now I’m at peace with it. It just confirmed to me that she was that special angel and had to go help other people. Angels don’t always come in the form we think they do. God sends them in the form you need. It was a Brown Swiss calf for me.