the view

ok so "the view" had an entire show dedicated to breast cancer awareness & survivors this past week. having a grandmother who lost the battle to breast cancer made me watch. very interesting show. the part of the show that really caught my attention was one of the guests. her name was lori benson. she is a breast cancer survivor. she made a documentary about her battle with cancer. the name of the documentary is "dear talula." talula is her daughter who at the time of her diagnosis was only 14 months old. upon her diagnosis she was told to stop breastfeeding her daughter. she did not. she actually breastfed her daughter up until the day of her surgery. they were showing clips of the documentary and one particular clip made me cry. like i said she breastfed her daughter up until the day of her surgery...2 days after the surgery...being on medication and obviously not allowed to breastfeed anymore...she sees her daughter for the first time....it's a clip of what looks like her daughter very upset that mommy isn't nursing her anymore and then the daughter is taken out of the room. viewers find out that this was the only time lori cried during her whole battle with breast cancer...when she couldn't feed her daughter. i cannot imagine what she must've gone through but it makes me want to see the entire documentary but i can't just yet. it's been in film festivals and is now on cinemax but we don't have cinemax. the dvd isn't available for purchase yet. just figured i would tell the blog world about it to increase its awareness....ah, but like my father inlaw i too feel that i have only a couple of blog readers.
Dear Talula